14th, 1.18 seconds. Lindsey Vonn raced in the World Cup again on Saturday for the first time since 2019. She finished 14th in the super-G in St. Moritz, 1.18 seconds behind the winner, Cornelia Hütter. She is 40.
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time / Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cornelia HütterAUT | AUT | 1:15.18 |
| 2 | Lara Gut-BehramiSUI | SUI | +0.18 |
| 3 | Sofia GoggiaITA | ITA | +0.33 |
| 14 | Lindsey VonnUSA | USA | +1.18 |
The knee
Vonn stopped in 2019. Earlier this year she had surgery in which part of the bone in her right knee was replaced with titanium. That lets her straighten the right leg fully for the first time in years. In speed skiing that matters: you need full extension through compressions and landings, or you absorb the hits badly and lose speed.
The run
She started 31st, on a track already marked by 30 skiers. Fourteenth in a top super-G field from that position, after almost six years away, is a solid first race. It is not a podium, and nobody is presenting it as one. Gut-Behrami, the reigning super-G globe winner, was 0.18 off the winner and Goggia 0.33, so the gap from 14th to the podium was about 0.85.
What she brings back
- 82 World Cup wins.
- 28 super-G wins, the most of any skier.
- Four overall World Cup titles.
- Three Olympic medals.
- Five previous wins in St. Moritz.
- Last World Cup race before today: 2019.
Hütter
Cornelia Hütter is the first Austrian woman to win in St. Moritz since Michaela Dorfmeister in 2006. A week ago she also won the first women’s World Cup downhill held on the Birds of Prey course in Beaver Creek.
Vonn’s 82 wins were the women’s record until Mikaela Shiffrin passed it at Kronplatz in January 2023. There is a second super-G on the same course on Sunday.