ST. MORITZ, Switzerland (AP) – Lara Gut made her overall World Cup title official on Wednesday, and Lindsey Vonn flew in to collect her eighth crystal globe in the downhill.
Although Gut’s title – the first for a Swiss woman in 21 years – was effectively sealed last weekend at nearby Lenzerheide, it became a mathematical certainty in front of more home fans at the World Cup finals in St. Moritz.
Mirjam Puchner won Wednesday’s race, taking advantage of the snowy conditions on the Engianda course to claim her first World Cup downhill victory. The Austrian beat Fabienne Suter of Switzerland by 0.13 seconds, with Elena Curtoni of Italy third, 0.17 behind.
Gut finished 13th.
Vonn clinched the downhill title before her crash in a super-G in Andorra last month and was in St. Moritz to pick up her 20th crystal globe.