Viktoria Rebensburg

Austria's Anna Fenninger claimed her second consecutive World Cup victory here on Saturday by winning the giant slalom with overall World Cup winner Tina Maze second.

Tina Maze will not leave the world ski championships with five medals as she had hoped, but the in-form Slovenian is firm favourite to defend her giant slalom title on Thursday.

The vaunted US ski team has the perfect chance to get their medal run at the World Ski Championships off to a flying start in Tuesday's women's super-G, the opening event.

Germany's giant slalom Olympic champion Viktoria Rebensburg defied the difficult conditions on the Olimpia delle Tofane course here Sunday to win a World Cup super-G for her second win of the season.

Germany's Viktoria Rebensburg won the Cortina d'Ampezzo women's World Cup super-G, held in difficult conditions on Sunday.

German Olympic champion Viktoria Rebensburg won Wednesday's women's World Cup giant slalom at Are, ending a four-race winning streak by Slovenian star Tina Maze.

Tina Maze of Slovenia won the women's World Cup giant slalom at St Moritz on Sunday to consolidate her lead in the overall standings.

Slovenia's Tina Maze won the women's World Cup giant slalom on Saturday, ahead of Austrian Kathrin Zettel and Germany's Viktoria Rebensburg.

Slovenia's Tina Maze won a fog-hit women's opening giant slalom Saturday, which also saw a sensational first World Cup podium for third-placed Austrian Stefanie Koehle and a crash for US star Lindsey Vonn.

Defending champions Lindsey Vonn and Marcel Hirscher go into the World Cup season-opener this weekend with differing expectations at the start of a testing new campaign.

Sweden's Andre Myhrer won the season-ending men's slalom to claim the World Cup title in the discipline on Sunday as Germany's Viktoria Rebensburg defended her women's giant slalom crown.

US ski star Lindsey Vonn won her fourth World Cup trophy of the season with the super-G here Thursday, as Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal took the men's title for the third time in his career.

US skier Lindsey Vonn secured her fourth straight super-G World Cup trophy here Thursday, as Germany's Viktoria Rebensburg won the discipline's final race of the season.

American Lindsey Vonn admitted a break away from the slopes, including a spell of shopping in New York, was perhaps the turning point in yet another World Cup winning season.

Lindsey Vonn of the United States clinched the fourth overall women's alpine skiing World Cup title of her career after winning the giant slalom here on Friday.

Germany's Viktoria Rebensburg won Saturday's giant slalom here for her sixth World Cup victory and third of the season as she consolidated her place at the top of the discipline's season standings.

Germany's Viktoria Rebensburg won Friday's giant slalom on home snow at Ofterschwang for her fifth World Cup victory and second of the season as she moved to the head of the discipline's season standings.

Tessa Worley of France won the women's World Cup giant slalom here on Saturday ahead of Italy's Federica Brignone and Viktoria Rebensburg of Germany.

BEAVER CREEK, Colorado (Reuters) - It took Lindsey Vonn 46 World Cup victories to finally win on home soil and she could not dream of a better place to do it than Beaver Creek, the resort in which she was raised.

American Lindsey Vonn won her fourth Alpine Ski Women's World Cup race in a row on Wednesday, capturing a rescheduled Super-G event after sweeping three races last weekend in Canada.