Vonn, Janka bask in overall triumph
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March 13, 2010, Saturday
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LINDSEY Vonn of the US skied through more pain yesterday to win the women's overall World Cup title for the third year running.
Vonn ignored a bruised right knee after crashing in Thursday's giant slalom to win the final super-G in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, and make sure of the overall title with one race left in the season.
She also notched up her 11th win of the season in World Cup races, a US record for both men and women.
"My jaw is still hanging on the ground," Vonn said after holding off a strong late challenge from Maria Riesch, who beat her in the downhill on Wednesday and was second in Thursday's giant slalom to prolong the title race.
"It was a dream season," added Vonn, who also won the Olympic downhill gold medal last month.
The American also won the super-G and downhill trophies, taking six out of eight races in the latter event.
Skiing last yesterday, Vonn had already been assured of the title when Riesch, her only rival and needing a win or second place to maintain her challenge, was pushed out of the top two.
Vonn tore down the Kandahar course to win with a time of one minute 19.30 seconds, 0.16 seconds ahead of Elisabeth Goergl of Austria. Nadia Styger of Switzerland finished third and Germany's Riesch ended up fourth.
Three straight
Vonn became the first woman to win three straight overall titles since Petra Kronberger of Austria in 1990-92.
In the men's, Carlo Janka of Switzerland won the overall World Cup title and American Ted Ligety secured the giant slalom crystal globe.
Janka, the Olympic champion, won yesterday's giant slalom to take an unassailable lead in the overall standings with one race remaining. He is now 106 points ahead of Benjamin Raich of Austria.
With his main rivals out of contention, Ligety completed the second run to share third place and clinch the title he also won in 2008.
Ligety led the standings and his closest rivals, Massimiliano Blardone of Italy and Marcel Hirscher of Austria, flopped in the first run. Blardone went off course and finished well behind, while Hirscher was disqualified for starting too early.
Janka led after the first run and took no risks in the second heat to win in a combined time of 2:20.87 for his sixth victory of the season.
Raich finished eighth and with 100 points at stake in today's slalom, the final race of the season, cannot overtake Janka. Davide Simoncelli of Italy was second in 2:21.18 and Ligety tied for third with Philipp Schoerghofer of Austria at 2:21.44.
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