Gut-Behrami claims 1st World Cup win of season as Vonn finishes 13th in Garmisch super-G

Swiss ski star Lara Gut-Behrami has finally found a way back to winning ways, with next month's world championships looming.

The defending overall World Cup champion overcame challenging course conditions Sunday to win the last super-G before the worlds for her first victory of the season, while Lindsey Vonn placed 13th in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. 

Gut-Behrami mastered the tricky turns in the middle part of the Kandahar course to earn career win No. 46, which put her in joined fifth place on the all-time female winners list.

"It's nice. I was skiing well since a while, still missing something, so it's great to be able to win again," Gut-Behrami said.

"It's a challenging slope, it's not the conditions where I ski the best. It was a little bit slippery, a little bit soft. Sometimes when you don't have the perfect conditions for yourself, you stop thinking."

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Lara Gut-Behrami wins her 1st super-G race of the season

The worlds take place in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria on Feb. 4-16. The first individual race is the women's super-G on Feb. 8.

The technically outstanding Gut-Behrami was especially clean in a passage that caused many racers problems — a jump followed by a sharp turn left.

She was 0.35 seconds faster than Kajsa Vickhoff Lie of Norway, who had earned her first of eight career podiums at a super-G in Garmisch-Partenkirchen four years ago.

Federica Brignone was three-hundredths further back in third, a day after the Italian won the downhill on the same hill.

Sofia Goggia, who was runner-up to Brignone in Saturday's race, placed fourth, ahead of teammates Laura Pirovano and Marta Bassino, as the Italian team finished with four racers in the top