The second day of Women's Alpine Skiing World Cup in Zauchensee featured a super-G race.
After winning Saturday's sprint downhill, the USA's Lindsey Vonn completed the sweep of the weekend's races in the super-G race. Vonn, the winner of this season's only previous super-G race, beat second-placed overall World Cup leader Lara Gut of Switzerland by 0.70 seconds. After failing to finish in Saturday's downhill, Gut was showing great pace in the super-G race. She was 0.01 seconds ahead of Vonn at the last split, yet made a mistake at that spot that took off speed and cost her the chance of winning.
Austria's 23-year-old Cornelia Hütter achieved her second podium finish of the weekend. Like in Saturday's downhill, she finished third, 1.25 seconds from Vonn.
Italy's Nadia Fanchini finished in fourth place (+1.26), equaling her best result of the season. Austria's Elisabeth Görgl finished in fifth place (+1.30) and Italy's Francesca Marsaglia in sixth place (+1.34), both achieving their season-best results.
Germany's Viktoria Rebensburg showed great pace in her run. Possibly even helped by a big mistake at the last split, she was leading Vonn by 0.35 seconds. Yet the mistake took off speed and she ended up finishing her run 1.85 seconds behind Vonn, in 11th place.
One of the favorites for the race, Liechtenstein's Tina Weirather did a big mistake on the top section of the course that took off her chances of succeeding. She finished in 21st place, 2.49 seconds from Vonn.
After two of the season's eight super-G races, Lindsey Vonn leads the super-G World Cup standings with the 200 points of her two wins. Cornelia Hütter is in second place with the 120 points from the two third places. Lara Gut is in third place at 116 points. Austria's Tamara Tippler is in fourth place at 100 points; after finishing second in the season's first super-G in Lake Louise, the 24-year-old Austrian finished only 13th in Zauchensee.
Lara Gut remains in the overall World Cup lead, though second-placed Lindsey Vonn reduced the gap by 20 points to 38 points. The following two positions are held by technical specialists; Sweden's Frida Hansdotter is in third place (217 points from Gut) and Norway's Nina Løseth in fourth place (332 points from Gut). Cornelia Hütter is in fifth place (344 points from Gut) and Viktoria Rebensburg in sixth place (350 points from Gut).
The women's World Cup continues next week in Flachau with slalom races on Tuesday, January 12 and Friday, January 15, and a giant slalom race on Sunday, January 17.