Lindsey Vonn earns first victory since injury return

BySportsbeat

Updated 21/01/2017 at 12:14 GMT

Lindsey Vonn celebrated her first win since returning from injury with victory in the women's World Cup downhill in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

US skier Lindsey Vonn reacts during the training of the women downhill race at the FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany, on January 20, 2017

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Vonn, Olympic downhill champion in 2010, made her first appearance in almost a year last weekend when she finished 13th in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, but went far better this time out.

Vonn suffered two serious injuries in 2016, breaking her leg in March, which ended her season, and then fracturing her arm in training in November.

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But there was no stopping the American in Germany on Saturday as she beat Switzerland's Lara Gut by 0.15 seconds to record her 77th World Cup win.

Vonn's winning time of 1:43.41 minutes means the 32-year-old is now just nine behind Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark's all-time record of 86 wins.

Last year's overall World Cup winner Gut was second in 1:43.56, 0.33 seconds ahead of home favourite Viktoria Rebensburg.

Gut lies second in the downhill World Cup standings on 260 points, 117 behind Slovenia's Ilka Stuhec who was eighth on Saturday, with Vonn now up to ninth on 120.

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