Lindsey Vonn fastest in last World Cup downhill training run

– On a great day for World Cup skiers who grew up at little Buck Hill in Burnsville, Lindsey Vonn got her 73rd victory and Michael Ankeny scored his first race points.

Vonn moved within 58 points of Gut (658pts) in the overall World Cup standings with the victory and she is now 50 points clear of Huetter (250pts) in the downhill table.

Cornelia Huetter (+1.66secs) continued her fine form this season with a fourth podium – the fifth of her career – as she claimed third place, with Larisa Yurkiw (+1.00secs) putting a little bit of pressure on Vonn as she finished nine hundredths behind her second run time.

Ten racers held the lead as the second run took place, first place changing hands at will as the likes of Viktoria Rebensburg (+2.53secs), Elisabeth Goergl (+2.85secs) and Kajsa Kling (+2.05secs) produced quick times.

“I like the two-run downhill – it’s nice to do something different”, said Vonn, who also raced the last two-run downhill in 2002 in Are, Sweden, when she was 17 years old.

“I just tried (to) ski a solid run”.

“It’s a flawless start to the new year”, she continued. “But physically I am OK”, Gut said.

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Vonn has now won 72 World Cup races in all disciplines. “I think I was smart with my tactics”.

“It took me too long to react. But today she was.”
The first run was interrupted for 15 minutes when Lotte Smiseth Sejersted crashed and had to be airlifted off the course with suspected knee injuries.

In the shadow of Vonn’s celebrity, three more American women landed in the top 30. Possibly even helped by a big mistake at the last split, she was leading Vonn by 0.35 seconds.

Katja Seizinger of Germany won a record five super G races in a row between March and December 1997.

Lindsey Vonn speeds down the course during an alpine ski, women’s World Cup super-G, in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Austria, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016.

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