Vonn breaks all-time World Cup record

Lindsay Vonn's first provisional win in a super-G this season has taken her past Annemarie Moser-Proell's 35-year-old record of 62 World Cup victories.

Lindsey Vonn has provisionally won a super-G to break Annemarie Moser-Proell's 35-year-old record of 62 World Cup victories.

For win No. 63, the American clocked 1 minute, 27.03 seconds down the Olympia delle Tofane course on Monday to finish 0.85 seconds ahead of Anna Fenninger of Austria.

Tina Weirather of Liechtenstein was third, 0.92 back.

Some lower-ranked skiers were still to race.

Vonn got record-tying win No. 62 in a downhill on Sunday.

Moser-Proell, an Austrian great, established her record between 1970 and 1980.

Swedish standout Ingemar Stenmark holds the men's record of 86 wins.

It was Vonn's first win in super-G this season and her fourth overall this campaign, showing a return to top form after two knee injuries kept her out of last year's Sochi Olympics.

Perhaps more importantly, the win showed Vonn is dominating again just weeks before her home world championships in Vail and Beaver Creek, Colorado.

Vonn was on track to shatter Moser-Proell's record two years ago before a high-speed crash at the 2013 world championships in Schladming, Austria, when she tore two ligaments in her right knee. She attempted to return for Sochi but re-injured her knee in Val d'Isere, France, in December, 2013, requiring a second surgery.

The 30-year-old Vonn is planning to compete through the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

Vonn has won 32 downhills, 21 super-Gs, three giant slaloms, two slaloms and five combined races.

Not included in those numbers are Vonn's gold medal in downhill at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, or her golds in downhill and super-G at the 2009 worlds in Val d'Isere.


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