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Alpine skiing-Gut adds Super-G title to overall World Cup

ST MORITZ, Switzerland, March 17 (Reuters) - Switzerland's Lara Gut added the women's Super-G World Cup title to the overall crystal globe she had already captured after finishing second in the final speed race of the season on Thursday. The race was won by Liechtenstein's Tina Weirather, her second victory of the season in the discipline, with Austrian Cornelia Huetter third. Gut needed a top-six finish on home snow to be sure of overtaking American Lindsey Vonn, whose season was ended early by a knee injury, and clinched the title for the second time in her career. Second place left the 24-year-old Swiss on 481 points to Weirather's 436 and 420 for Vonn. "The last times everybody was just talking about the overall and I was really fighting against that because I wanted to ski fast in the races," Gut told Eurosport. "Everyone was just like (saying) 'Yeah, you have the overall, be happy.' Now I am happy. "It was good. It wasn't the best super-G I did but it was already good and I have the little one (globe) so that's nice." In the overall World Cup standings, Gut has 1,462 points to Vonn's 1,235 with two races, a slalom and giant slalom, remaining at the weekend for a maximum of 200 points. Friday features a mixed team competition. (Writing by Alan Baldwin, editing by Tony Jimenez)