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US pairing of Shiffrin, Johnson win team combined world gold, Vonn 16th / Photo: © AFP
US pairing of Shiffrin, Johnson win team combined world gold, Vonn 16th
US star Mikaela Shiffrin marked her return from injury by teaming up with Breezy Johnson for a stunning combined gold at the World Ski Championships in Saalbach on Tuesday.
Johnson, who won the blue riband downhill on Saturday just weeks after returning to action following a 14-month ban for three anti-doping whereabouts failures, was fourth fastest in the opening downhill section.
Shiffrin, the most successful skier of all time with 99 World Cup victories to her name, then kept her cool to clock the third fastest time in the slalom to give the US pair a winning aggregate time of 2min 40.89sec.
The Swiss pair of Lara Gut-Behrami and Wendy Holdener claimed silver, at 0.39sec, while the second of four Austrian teams -- super-G champion Stephanie Venier and Katharina Truppe -- took bronze a further 0.14sec adrift.
World super-G bronze medallist Lauren Macuga of the United States had set the fastest time in the downhill, but her partner Paul Moltzan saw that lead dissipate on her slalom run, the duo eventually finishing fourth, at 0.64sec.
Lindsey Vonn's hopes of troubling the podium all but evaporated after she finished 2.51 seconds off Macuga's 1min 41.60sec pace down the 2.9km-long Ulli Maier course in the Austrian resort in he morning's action.
That result left Vonn's slalom partner AJ Hurt with a mountain to climb in the slalom. They finished 16th, at 2.98sec.
V.Perez--SFF
