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 minimize her profession quick in 2019 because of a sequence of crashes and accidents, however then she had knee substitute 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 return again.
Vonn left the tour with 82 World Cup wins – the document for a lady on the time and inside attain of the then all-time Alpine mark of 86 held by Swedish standout Ingemar Stenmark. The ladies’s document held by Vonn was eclipsed in January 2023 by American teammate Mikaela Shiffrin, who now has an outright document 99 wins.
Shiffrin, who shares the document of 5 wins in St Moritz with Vonn, isn’t 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 permits former champions to enter races with out the mandatory factors.
Eight-time total World Cup champion Marcel Hirscher additionally took benefit of the wild card rule and returned this season after 5 years away. However then Hirscher tore his left ACL whereas coaching in large slalom and introduced earlier this month that his comeback season was finished.
Vonn is making an attempt to enter unchartered territory when it comes to success at a complicated age in girls’s snowboarding.
The oldest girl to win a World Cup race was Federica Brignone, the Italian who received the large slalom in Soelden, Austria, in October to begin 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 document for the oldest podium finisher with a second-place outcome within the famed Hahnenkamm downhill in Kitzbuehel, Austria, at age 42 in January 2023.
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