Olympic champion Sofia Goggia is dominating the World Cup downhill season like no woman since ski great Lindsey Vonn.
Goggia won her fourth straight downhill on Saturday to tie a World Cup streak last achieved by Vonn in 2018.
The Italian star finished 0.27 seconds faster than Lara Gut-Behrami as both thrived on icy snow slicker than in Friday’s race at Crans-Montana also won by Goggia.
Goggia’s teammate Elena Curtoni was third, 0.60 back, ending Breezy Johnson’s streak of four third-place finishes in downhill.
Johnson was fifth, 0.89 behind Goggia, giving the United States its most consistent threat in downhill since Vonn’s stellar career ended two years ago.
Vonn’s best streak in World Cup downhill was six straight wins in 2009-10, according to the ski-db.Com database. That matched her childhood idol Picabo Street’s run in 1995.
Vonn won four straight World Cup downhills from January to March 2018 to complete that season. They were the last of Vonn’s 82 career World Cup victories, more than any other woman on the circuit that began in 1967.
During Vonn’s winning run, Goggia was runner-up three times and also won the Pyeongchang Olympics downhill in South Korea where Vonn took Bronze.