American skier Lindsey Vonn equaled Austrian Annemarie Moser-Prell's record for the number of victories in the World Cup, reports B92.
Vonova triumphed in the downhill in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, and thus reached the 62nd victory of her career, making her the most successful of all time in the elite competition, along with Moser-Prelova.
The American woman, the winner of four big Crystal Globes, is now only one victory away from writing new pages of history, and she will have the first opportunity to do so on Monday, when she is scheduled to compete in the super giant slalom in Cortina.
Vonova has so far achieved 32 victories in the downhill, 20 in the super giant slalom, five in the combined, three in the giant slalom and the remaining two in the slalom.
She has done this since 2000, but missed most of the previous two seasons due to injury.
Moser-Prelova achieved her 62nd victory from 1969 to 1980, and at that time there was no super giant slalom, and like Vonn, her best was in the downhill, in which she achieved 36 victories.
The American reached the 62nd victory in her career with a perfect ride, in a time of 1:39.61 minutes, thus also celebrating for the third time this season.
In the end, she was 21 hundredths ahead of the Austrian Elizabeth Gergl, and they were joined on the podium by the local skier Daniela Merighetti, who was 54 hundredths of a second behind Vonn.
Behind the top three followed another Italian Elena Fankini, ahead of the leader in the general classification Tina Maze, Swiss Dominik Gisin and another local skier Johanna Schnarf.
The Swiss Lara Gut was eighth, and the ninth place was shared by the American Loren Ross and the current winner of the World Cup, Ana Fenninger.
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