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Just a day after clinching the overall World Cup championship and the downhill championship, Vonn won the final super-G race of the season and clinched the world championship in that discipline as well. She is the first American woman to win a super-G world championship. It was her ninth World Cup win this winter and the fourth straight super-G win. She now leads all American women with two overall titles, 22 career wins and 47 podium finishes.

American Lindsay Vonn continued her incredible season on Wednesday when she retained the women's alpine skiing World Cup title at the season-ending finals here. Vonn won the downhill in 1min 42.49sec to edge out Maria Riesch of Germany and Austria's Renate Goetschl. "My life could not be any better," said the 24-year-old. "I have a fantastic husband, two cristal globes, two downhill globes. I'm missing nothing." It's the first time an American woman has ever won two overall crowns, and the trophies will be added to a burgeoning collection that also includes two World Championship golds

Lindsey Vonn set an American record with her 19th women's World Cup victory Sunday in a super-G. Vonn is the reigning overall champion. She became the first American woman since McKinney in 1983 to win the overall title. McKinney's wins in the 1980s were all in slalom and giant slalom. No American woman has ever won back-to-back overall titles. Vonn has won 11 downhills, four super-G's, two super-combis and two slaloms. This was her sixth win of the season.