Vonn sets women's WCup points record
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March 18, 2012, Sunday
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LINDSEY Vonn set a women's Alpine ski World Cup points record when she reached 1,980 for the season with eighth place in a slalom race in Schladming, Austria, yesterday.
The American World Cup champion passed the mark of 1,970 points set by Croatia's Janica Kostelic in 2006.
Vonn has one more race, today's giant slalom on the same course, to improve her total and aim at the men's record of 2,000 points set by Austria's Hermann Maier in 2000. Twelfth place in the last race of the winter would be enough for the American to break the 2,000-point barrier.
Vonn is also an outside contender for the GS title. She has to win the race and leader Viktoria Rebensburg of Germany must fail to score points. In that case, Vonn would win her record fifth crystal globe of the season after the overall championship and the downhill, super-G and super-combined titles.
Yesterday's race victory went to Austria's Michaela Kirchgasser, who clocked a combined time of one minute 32.57 seconds to win her second slalom of the season after Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, in January.
Veronika Zuzulova, fastest in the first leg, missed out on her first World Cup victory yet again, by 0.12 seconds. In eight seasons on the circuit, the Slovakian has earned 13 podium placings but no wins.
World champion Marlies Schild, already crowned in the discipline's World Cup for the season, was third, 0.51 seconds adrift, but the Austrian will now have to wait until next season to try to equal the record of 34 slalom wins held by Swiss Vreni Schneider.
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