The downhill world champion finished the race ahead of Liechtenstein's Tina Weirather and Austria's Nicole Schmidhofer.

Yesterday, Štuhec clinched her first Alpine Ski World Cup win this season in downhill at the same venue, after a serious knee injury.

Meanwhile, Slovenia's Žan Kranjec won in World Cup giant slalom meet in Austria's Saalbach, which is his first ever career win in the Alpine Ski World Cup.