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Lindsey Vonn breaks all-time women’s alpine skiing World Cup record

<span>Lindsey Vonn claimed the 63rd World Cup win of her career to eclipse the previous all-time women’s record belonging to Austria’s Annemarie Moser-Pröll. Photograph: Mitchell Gunn/Getty Images</span><span>Photograph: Mitchell Gunn/Getty Images</span>
Lindsey Vonn claimed the 63rd World Cup win of her career to eclipse the previous all-time women’s record belonging to Austria’s Annemarie Moser-Pröll. Photograph: Mitchell Gunn/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Mitchell Gunn/Getty Images

Lindsey Vonn became the most successful female in alpine skiing World Cup history on Monday when she won the Super-G competition in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy to claim her 63rd career victory.

Tied with the Austrian Annemarie Moser-Pröll on 62 wins after her triumph in Sunday’s downhill at the same Italian course, the American now has the most victories.

The four-times overall World Cup champion has collected 32 wins in the downhill, 21 Super-G’s, an event that did not exist in Moser-Pröll’s time, three giant slaloms, two slaloms and five combined races. The men’s record of 86 wins is held by Swede Ingemar Stenmark.

For win No63, the American clocked 1min 27.03sec to finish 0.85 ahead of Anna Fenninger of Austria. Tina Weirather of Liechtenstein was third, 0.92 further back.

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.

It was Vonn’s ninth career win in Cortina, where she had her first podium result in 2004, putting her within one of Austrian Renate Götschl’s record 10 wins in the resort known as the Queen of the Dolomites.