Lindsey Vonn captures super-G title too

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Lindsey Vonn won the super-G season finale today at the World Cup finals in Sweden to clinch the title, becoming the first American woman to do so.

She now has three crystal globes this season, tying the U.S. record set by Phil Mahre in 1982. On Wednesday, the 24-year-old Vonn won the downhill title and the World Cup overall title.

In today’s race, Vonn sped down the course in 1 minute, 20.63 seconds.

It was Vonn’s ninth World Cup victory this season, the most for any American -- male or female -- in a single season.

‘I was hoping so much that I could win today and get the super-G globe, no American female has ever done that,’ Vonn told reporters.

-- Debbie Goffa