Lindsey Vonn finished fifth in Sunday's World Cup super-G to complete a successful return to competition
after a serious knee injury.
Lindsey Vonn factfile
- Born: Minnesota, United States, 18 October 1984
- 2000: World Cup debut aged 16 in Park City, Utah
- 2002: Competes at Winter Olympics in Utah aged 17 in downhill and combined
- 2004: Claims first World Cup race win at Lake Louise in Canada
- 2008: Wins first World Cup title to become only the second American woman to lift the trophy
- 2009: Wins World Championships in Val-d'Isère, France, and becomes first American to win women's world Super-G title
- 2010: Wins downhill gold at Winter Olympics
- 2011: Loses World Cup overall title to friend Maria Riesch
- 2012: Regains World Cup overall title. Request to compete in a men's World Cup downhill ski race rejected
The Olympic champion was 40th in Friday's downhill and
11th in Saturday's event
at Lake Louise in Canada.
The American, 29, is trying to prove her fitness ahead of the Sochi Winter Olympics, which start on 7 February.
"I'm so very happy about this weekend - every day it got better," she said.
The event in the Canadian Rockies was Vonn's first competitive outing after she suffered ruptured knee ligaments in a crash during February's World Championships in Schladming, Austria.
The four-time overall World Cup champion only returned to training in September, then in November she partially tore the anterior cruciate ligament in the same knee.
Vonn, who won gold in the downhill at the Vancouver Games in 2010 and bronze in the super-G, says she needs more time on the slopes before February's defence of her Olympic title in Russia.
"I'm sure I can win [but] I have to take more risks at the top. I need to ski more. In my head I know I can do it, it's just a question of time," she said.
Switzerland's Lara Gut, 22, won Sunday's super-G by just 0.03 seconds, ahead of Liechtenstein's Tina Weirather in second place and Austria's Anna Fenninger in third.
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