ST. MORITZ, Switzerland — Lindsey Vonn completed 14th place in a super-G on Saturday to mark her return to World Cup snowboarding at age 40.
Vonn crossed the road 1.18 seconds behind winner Cornelia Huetter.
It was the American standout’s first World Cup race after almost six years of retirement.
Vonn is planning to race one other super-G in St. Moritz on Sunday.
Vonn needed to reduce her profession brief in 2019 as a result of a collection of crashes and accidents, however then she had knee alternative surgical procedure in April and had two titanium items inserted into her proper knee. Her knee feels higher than it has in years, so she determined to come back again.
Vonn left the tour with 82 World Cup wins — the report for a girl on the time and inside attain of the then all-time Alpine mark of 86 held by Swedish standout Ingemar Stenmark. The ladies’s report held by Vonn was eclipsed in January 2023 by American teammate Mikaela Shiffrin, who now has an outright report 99 wins.
Shiffrin, who shares the report of 5 wins in St. Moritz with Vonn, is not racing this weekend as she recovers from stomach surgical procedure to scrub out a puncture wound she sustained in a crash final month.
Vonn took benefit of a brand new wild card rule that enables former champions to enter races with out the mandatory factors.
Eight-time general World Cup champion Marcel Hirscher additionally took benefit of the wild card rule and returned this season after 5 years away. But then Hirscher tore his left ACL whereas coaching in big slalom and introduced earlier this month that his comeback season was achieved.
Vonn is trying to enter unchartered territory when it comes to success at a sophisticated age in ladies’s snowboarding.
The oldest girl to win a World Cup race was Federica Brignone, the Italian who gained the large slalom in Soelden, Austria, in October to start out this season, at age 34.
The oldest man to win a race was Didier Cuche at 37 in a super-G in Crans Montana, Switzerland, in 2012.
Johan Clarey set the report for the oldest podium finisher with a second-place outcome within the famed Hahnenkamm downhill in Kitzbuehel, Austria, at age 42 in January 2023.
