Vonn wins in Cortina to break downhill record

CORTINA, Italy: American Lindsey Vonn won the women’s World Cup downhill here on Saturday to set a record of 37 victories in the speed discipline.

The 31-year-old former Olympic champion clocked a time of one minute 37.1 seconds to win by 0.28 seconds from Canada’s Larisa Yurkiw with Swiss Lara Gut in third.

The victory took Vonn past the 36 downhill wins of Austrian Annemarie Moser-Proell, who dominated women’s ski racing in the 1970s and was in the stands to watch
the American equal her record in Austria last week.