After winning in Levi, Austria's Reinfried Herbst claimed his second win of the season in the men's World Cup slalom at Alta Badia, ending the race ahead of Switzerland's Silvan Zurbriggen and Manfred Pranger of Austria.
US top favourite Lindsey Vonn finished third at the Val d'Isere World Cup super-G as Switzerland's Fraenzi Aufdenblatten claimed her maiden World Cup victory.
Manuel Osborne-Paradis of Canada clocked the fastest time at the men's World Cup downhill in Val Gardena (Italy). France's Johan Clarey was joint third with the Swiss Ambrosi Hoffmann.
The US World Cup champion for the past two seasons, Lindsey Vonn has already won the super-combined this year and is the big favourite for this weekend's two remaining events, the Super-G and the downhill.
Michael Walchhofer has won the Val d'Isere men's World Cup Super-G. The 34-year-old Austrian is the reigning Olympic downhill silver medallist. His victory comes shortly after Austrian Benjamin Raich’s super-combined win.
Andreas Kuettel grabbed his first ski jumping world championship title at the age of 30, in Liberec (Czech Republic). The competition was reduced to one leg, owing to bad weather.
Austrian Manfred Pranger won the men's slalom at the World Ski Championships ahead of France's Julien Lizeroux and Canada's Michael Janyk. Six of the top 10 skiers from the first run crashed out, including French favourite Grange.
Maria Riesch skied a blistering second run to win the women's slalom here and give Germany a second gold medal in the World Ski Championships. Czech Sarka Zahrobska took silver, Tanja Poutiainen of Finland came third.
