Lindsey Vonn fastest in final training run for women’s World Cup downhill

Having equalled Annemarie Moser-Proell’s record of 36 downhill victories at the same venue 24 hours earlier, Vonn again proved the class of the field as she beat Gut to victory in Sunday’s super-G race.

Vonn broke Moser-Proell’s record of 62 overall World Cup wins last season and, with today marking her 72nd overall victory, she is closing in on the best men’s mark of 86 held by Sweden’s Ingemar Stenmark.

The win, however, was not enough for her to overtake Switzerland’s Lara Gut for the overall points lead.

The 31-year-old American veteran, Olympic downhill gold medallist in 2010 and world champion in 2009, backed that up with the fastest time down the second run (1:04.94) for a combined winning time of 2:11.17. Austria’s Cornelia Huetter was third, 1.25 seconds behind.

Lindsey Vonn won a women’s World Cup super-G on Sunday for her second victory in as many days, heating up the battle for this season’s overall title with leader Lara Gut. It was the hardest moment in my career, I lost so much time, I lost the Olympics.

“She is so kind”, Vonn said.

“The bottom part of this course … was the most important part of the course”, Vonn said.

After winning Saturday’s sprint downhill, the USA’s Lindsey Vonn completed the sweep of the weekend’s races in the super-G race.

Vonn trailed Gut by 158 points coming into this weekend’s races but has reduced her deficit to 38.

“It annoys me”, the German said. They had to lower the start because of insufficient snow quality in the upper section. “It was tough with lots of bumps”. I knew many girls had problems so I chose to ski a rounder line..

Vonn’s first streak was between February and March 2009, and the current streak dates back to March of 2015. The skier from Liechtenstein lost balance in her final run as her left ski was airborne.

Yurkiw returned to the resort where she made her World Cup debut nine years ago, finishing 58th in a downhill.

The next women’s World Cup event is a night slalom in nearby Flachau on Tuesday. But today she was..

Yurkiw called racing against Vonn a constant challenge.