GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany, Feb 5 AFP – American Julia Mancuso won the super-G World Cup race in Germany on Sunday with Austria’s Anna Fenninger second and Liechtenstein’s Tina Weirather finished third.

Mancuso was the fastest down the 2km-long course in a time of 1min 20.50secs, with Fenninger at 0.13sec back and Weirather, who also finished third in the previous day’s downhill, was 0.45sec off the pace.

US ski queen Lindsey Vonn, who claimed her 50th World Cup victory on Saturday in the downhill, failed to finish as the tricky Kandahar course claimed several high-profile victims including giant slalom world champion Tina Maze.

Vonn slipped up after catching an edge which forced her to miss a gate in the middle section of the course, while Maze clipped a gate which knocked her off course.

“I like the tough courses and it was very hard as the light isn’t so good, so you can’t see a lot,” said winner Mancuso, who took super-G silver when last year’s world championships was held here.

“I had to concentrate 100 percent as you can’t afford to make a mistake.”

Vonn had a three-minute delay at the start of her run, because a broken gate on the course needed to be fixed, but she was 0.21 seconds behind Mancuso on the second time split before she lost her line.

Last season’s overall World Cup winner Maria Hoefl-Riesch, skiing on her home-town course, was 0.55secs off the pace to finish fourth, just as she had done the day before in the downhill.

The exceptionally cold weather warmed slightly here as it was minus 20 on the course compared to -22 the previous day.