Record-breaking season for Maze ends with win
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March 18, 2013, Monday
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WORLD Cup winner Tina Maze ended her record-breaking season by winning the final giant slalom of the winter in Lenzerheide, Switzerland, yesterday.
The Slovenian, who began her remarkable season with a giant slalom victory, rounded off the campaign with her fifth win in that discipline to take her overall World Cup total to a remarkable 2,414 points.
With 11 World Cup wins, 24 podiums and a super-G world title, Maze's achievements will be hard to follow.
She crushed the previous record of 1,980 points, set last season by American Lindsey Vonn, and left her closest rival Maria Hoefl-Riesch of Germany trailing by 1,313 points.
Maze, who finished on the podium in every giant slalom she entered since the season opener in Soelden, clocked a combined time of two minutes and 16.67 seconds to beat world champion Tessa Worley of France by 0.35 seconds.
Worley was fastest in the morning run. Swiss Lara Gut finished third on home snow, 1.38 seconds adrift.
Earlier, Germany's Felix Neureuther got the better of overall World Cup globe winner Marcel Hirscher to win the final slalom race.
In a combined time of 1:52.20, Neureuther beat Hirscher by 0.36 seconds to take some revenge for being beaten into silver by the Austrian at last month's world championships in Schladming, Austria.
Croatian Ivica Kostelic was third, 0.51 seconds off the pace.
Crowned overall World Cup champion for the second year in succession, Hirscher finished the season with 1,535 points, with nearest rival Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway 309 points adrift.
Hirscher also won the slalom globe.
The Slovenian, who began her remarkable season with a giant slalom victory, rounded off the campaign with her fifth win in that discipline to take her overall World Cup total to a remarkable 2,414 points.
With 11 World Cup wins, 24 podiums and a super-G world title, Maze's achievements will be hard to follow.
She crushed the previous record of 1,980 points, set last season by American Lindsey Vonn, and left her closest rival Maria Hoefl-Riesch of Germany trailing by 1,313 points.
Maze, who finished on the podium in every giant slalom she entered since the season opener in Soelden, clocked a combined time of two minutes and 16.67 seconds to beat world champion Tessa Worley of France by 0.35 seconds.
Worley was fastest in the morning run. Swiss Lara Gut finished third on home snow, 1.38 seconds adrift.
Earlier, Germany's Felix Neureuther got the better of overall World Cup globe winner Marcel Hirscher to win the final slalom race.
In a combined time of 1:52.20, Neureuther beat Hirscher by 0.36 seconds to take some revenge for being beaten into silver by the Austrian at last month's world championships in Schladming, Austria.
Croatian Ivica Kostelic was third, 0.51 seconds off the pace.
Crowned overall World Cup champion for the second year in succession, Hirscher finished the season with 1,535 points, with nearest rival Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway 309 points adrift.
Hirscher also won the slalom globe.
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