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SAM Magazine—Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, Jan. 18, 2015—Lindsey Vonn captured her 62nd career World Cup win, tying a 35-year record that many race experts have thought was unbeatable, during the Audi FIS downhill in Cortina. Vonn won the race by .32 seconds over Austria's Elisabeth Goergl, and in doing so, ties the record of 62 wins by Austrian Moser-Proell from 1970 to 1980.

SAM Magazine—Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, Jan. 18, 2015—Lindsey Vonn captured her 62nd career World Cup win, tying a 35-year record that many race experts have thought was unbeatable, during the Audi FIS downhill in Cortina. Vonn won the race by .32 seconds over Austria's Elisabeth Goergl, and in doing so, ties the record of 62 wins by Austrian Moser-Proell from 1970 to 1980.

Vonn can break the record by winning the Super G scheduled for Monday. After that, she races next weekend in St. Moritz, Switzerland, where she's won four times, before coming home for the World Alpine Championships in Vail Feb. 2-15.

"It's a pretty special moment for me," said Vonn, whose parents were in Cortina. "These records mean a lot to me and my family."

Vonn's record-tying win occurred 11 years to the day that she, then a 19-year-old Lindsey Kildow, scored her first World Cup podium by finishing third in the Cortina downhill. This time Vonn took the early lead coming off a steep face into a band of fog and kept it through the finish, building continually down the course on which she had won seven times previously.

"The snow was really soft and I'm not good when it's soft, I'm from Minnesota and we used to race on ice, I wasn't very fast on the top," Vonn said.

Her biggest challenge came from Austrian Elisabeth Goergl running two racers later. Goergl jumped out to a lead and looked to challenge, but didn't have the speed Vonn had coming into the finish.

Five Americans finished in the top 18 including Laurenne Ross, Bend, Ore., Alice McKennis, Glenwood Springs, Colo., Stacey Cook, Mammoth Mountain, Calif., and Julia Mancuso, Squaw Valley, Calif.

Vonn now has a solid lead in the Audi FIS Ski World Cup downhill standings, 358-233 over Tina Maze of Slovenia. Vonn won her first World Cup, a Lake Louise downhill in 2004, at the age of 20.