Ilka Štuhec clinches her tenth World Cup win

Ilka Štuhec won the women's downhill race in Italy's Cortina d'Ampezzo on 21 January for her tenth career World Cup victory, six of which she has clinched in downhill, her strongest discipline.

Norwegian Kajsa Vickhoff Lie came in second, 0.26 seconds behind Štuhec, and Italian Elena Curtoni was third, with a lag of 0.34 seconds.

After several seasons marred by setbacks and injuries, the 32-year-old Slovenian skier make a comeback this season and has been building up form since.

She finished second in the downhill in Switzerland's St Moritz in December and repeated the...

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