Summary Lindsey Vonn completed her third treble sweep at Lake Louise in five seasons.
MONTREAL (AFP) - Lindsey Vonn completed her third treble sweep at Lake Louise in five seasons by winning Sunday s World Cup Super-G race at the Canadian piste to seize the overall points lead.
The 31-year-old American swept downhills Friday and Saturday and completed her weekend hat-trick with a run of 1:19.79 for her 70th career World Cup victory, 18 of them coming at Lake Louise.
"I had a pretty good run. I m pretty happy with it," Vonn said. "I definitely got a little bit late on the bottom, got pushed a little bit, but I kept the speed going. So I would say it was a pretty decent run, but looking back you can always say you could do better."
Austrian Tamara Tippler was second in 1:21.11 with compatriot Cornelia Huetter third in 1:21.14.
Reigning downhill and Super-G World Cup champion Vonn has won 25 career Super-G World Cup races, a record for men or women.
"It was a big deal," Vonn said. "I feel like there were some people that doubted whether I could win today and especially because Lara (Gut) had won the last couple races here in super-G.
"And also my technician made some bets with people, so I felt a little bit like I had to come through. It was my physio Lindsay s last day with me travelling on the road, so I kind of wanted to end with a bang."
Vonn has enjoyed a magical run at Lake Louise since taking her first World Cup win there in 2004.
Vonn, the most decorated women s skier in World Cup history, also won three races at Lake Louise in 2011 and 2012. She was hurt in a 2013 training run barely two weeks before Lake Louise, reinjuring her right knee, and settled for 40th and 11th in downhills and fifth in the Super-G.
But with her latest triumph, she edged just ahead of compatriot Mikaela Shiffrin 300-296 for the overall season points lead and took the Super-G lead as well. Shiffrin was 15th in her speed debut, 2.29 adrift of Vonn.
"There were some spots that I was probably a little bit too wide and here and there maybe turning almost too much, but down the piste, onto the flats, I felt like I carried some good speed," Shiffrin said.
"I m starting ahead of where I actually thought I would. I felt solid on the skis and it was really fun to be honest."
Vonn seeks her fifth overall crown in nine seasons and first since 2012, her sixth Super-G crown in eight seasons and eighth downhill crown in nine seasons.
Tippler enjoyed a career-best result for the third day in a row.
It s so amazing," she said. "I have no words to describe it."
Huetter was excited after her third podium in as many days.
"I had to push hard," she said. "It s a good result, I am super happy about it."
The World Cup tour resumes next week with technical events in Are, Sweden.
