Austria's Elisabeth Goergl claimed her second World Cup victory of the month after dominating Germany's Maria Hoefl-Riesch on Thursday to win the women's super-G at Cortina.
In changing weather conditions, Goergl who started ninth clocked a time of 1min 24.23sec for the Olympia delle Tofane course, just 0.04s better than Hoefl-Riesch, starting 21st.
Another Austrian, Nicole Hosp - who started 11th - finished third at 0.34.
Goergl won the women's downhill at Altenmarkt in Austria earlier this month to claim her first victory of the season.
With the Winter Olympic Games three weeks away, Goergl's second victory in succession appears to have given her a boost before her trip to Sochi -- but statistics for the super-G suggest otherwise.
On five previous occasions, a women's super-G was held in Cortina a month before the Games but none of the five winners at the Italian Dolomites venue won Olympic gold in the discipline.
Two women's downhills are set to be held, on Friday and Saturday, while a second women's super-G is scheduled for Sunday.
Cortina was set to host a super-G and downhill last week but both races were cancelled and rescheduled due to heavy snowfall.
The Italian venue is also staging a downhill and a super-G that were originally scheduled at the German resort of Garmisch.
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