The Fort Worth Press - Veteran Brignone claims St Anton downhill, Vonn in sixth

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Veteran Brignone claims St Anton downhill, Vonn in sixth
Veteran Brignone claims St Anton downhill, Vonn in sixth / Photo: © AFP

Veteran Brignone claims St Anton downhill, Vonn in sixth

Italian veteran Federica Brignone continued her superb season with success in the women's World Cup downhill at St Anton on Saturday, with comeback queen Lindsey Vonn a fine sixth.

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With 40-year-old Vonn, continuing her return after a near six-year retirement, and evergreen Brignone stealing the show there was a real retro feel in the air at the famed Austrian ski resort.

Brignone, the oldest winner of a women's World Cup ski race at 34, flew down the demanding Karl Schranz course to land her third race of the season - and her first ever downhill - in a time of 1min 16.08sec.

She was joined on the podium by Swiss Malorie Blanc, 0.07sec adrift, with Czech Ester Ledecka at 0.18sec.

Vonn, 0.58sec behind after starting 32nd of the 51 starters, raised her arms as if she had won after her exhilarating effort on her first downhill since her comeback to the elite circuit at St Moritz last month.

The most successful women's downhill skier of all time with 43 wins the American ski star was at one stage on target to land a hugely popular victory, only to lose a bit of momentum towards the end of the slope in the heart of the Austrian ski resort.

Vonn's last top level downhill was at the 2019 world championships in Are, Sweden - where she took bronze.

One of the all-time biggest names in the sport has made her return after a partial knee replacement.

She came in a hugely respectable 14th in the super-G at St Moritz and with this eye-catching sixth place she looks bang on target to achieve her dream of qualifying for the 2026 Winter Olympics at Milan-Cortina in Italy.

Vonn left the sport in 2019 after a series of major injuries but she has been free of pain since a right knee replacement in April, when part of the bone was cut off and replaced by two titanium pieces.

She was the most decorated women's skier with 82 World Cup victories when she retired. Her mark has since been eclipsed by fellow American Mikaela Shiffrin's 99.

Vonn, the 2010 Olympic downhill champion, also won 20 World Cup titles, including four overall crystal globes, eight world championship medals and secured 137 World Cup podiums

Vonn has won 43 World Cup downhills, the last in 2018.

Austria's Cornelia Huetter is the downhill globe champion - and the winner of the Beaver Creek downhill at the start of the season but the local hope had to settle for seventh here.

Another leading light, Sofia Goggia, failed to finish after crashing out mid-slope, the Italian losing her balance on one of the turns but thankfully walked away unharmed.

"I lost my balance in the fresh snow," reported former Olympic downhill champion Goggia.

Huetter leads the discipline standings by just seven points from Brignone, who was extending her World Cup tally of victories to 30 with this first ever win in the downhill.

G.Dominguez--TFWP