Switzerland’s Lara Gut speeds down the course during an alpine ski, women’s World Cup super-G, in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016.
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ADELBODEN, Switzerland (AP) – On a great day for World Cup skiers who grew up at little Buck Hill, Lindsey Vonn got her 73rd win and Michael Ankeny scored his first race points.
Lindsey Vonn won a women’s World Cup downhill Saturday for her 36th career victory in the discipline, matching Annemarie Moser-Proell’s all-time best mark.
Along with Gut, Viktoria Rebensburg had also threatened to outdo Vonn, but a costly late error left the German nearly two seconds off the pace in 11th.
Cornelia Huetter of Austria was 1.66 seconds behind, in third.
It marked Vonn’s 36th career downhill win, equalling the record held by Austria’s 1980 Olympic champion Annemarie Moser-Proell. In the overall standings, Vonn trails Gut by 158 points.
Austria’s 23-year-old Cornelia Hütter achieved her second podium finish of the weekend.
“She is so kind”, said Vonn, who broke Moser-Proell’s overall record of 62 victories a year ago in Italy. Vonn, now 31, competed in that race as a 17-year-old and was the only skier on Saturday’s start list to have raced in a sprint downhill before.
Yurkiw called racing against Vonn a constant challenge.
Vonn took the only previous super-G this season by a 1.32-second winning margin in Lake Louise, Alberta, last month, and is now unbeaten in the discipline for four races.
After the first leg, Vonn led Yurkiw by 0.91, and Tina Weirather by 0.92. “The bottom part of this course is the most important part”.
“I enjoyed it and I am very happy – until my final split time”, Gut said.
Up next, the women’s tech team heads to Flachau, Austria for slalom Tuesday.
She leads the World Cup super-G standings by 80 points over Huetter and climbed to within 38 points of overall leader Gut after her double-winning weekend, which she attributes to time off at home in Colorado over Christmas.
Katja Seizinger of Germany won a record five super G races in a row between March and December 1997.
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A super-G on the same course is scheduled for Sunday.
