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A weekend of records

50 was the magic number for the ladies last weekend with both Marit Bjoergen (NOR) and Lindsey Vonn (USA) both scoring their 50th World Cup victories. whilst 22-year-old Gregor Schlierenzauer (AUT) took his 40th World Cup win in Predazzo (ITA) on Saturday.

Marit Bjoergen won the 10km mass start race in free technique in Rybinsk (RUS) for her 50th World Cup title, not including the daily stage victories in multi-stage tours. With this milestone she is the all-time record holder of World Cup wins, ahead of countryman Bjoern Daehlie with 46 and Elena Vaelbe (RUS) with 45.
Meanwhile in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (GER), Lindsey Vonn reached a par with the legendary Alberto Tomba (ITA) on the all-time legends list, sharing 5th place in the historical ranking that is led by Ingemark Stenmark with 86 wins. Annemarie Moser-Proell (AUT, 62) and Vreni Scheider (SUI, 55) are the top females while Hermann Maier (AUT, 54) already appears well within Vonn's reach if she continues at the same pace. It was Vonn's 25th downhill World Cup victory with which she passed the score of Renate Goetschl and now ties for 2nd overall with Franz Klammer. Moser-Proell leads that ranking with 36 wins.

Gregor Schlierenzauer is already launching a formidable challenge for the current record of 46 World Cup victories held by Finland's Matti Nykänen. Nykänen - regardless of problems in his private life - has been considered the world's best ski jumper as he won five Olympic gold medals, four overall World Cup titles, two 4-Hills-Tournaments, five World Championship titles and a gold at the FIS Ski Flying World Championships between 1981-1991. At the age of 22, Schlierenzauer still has many opportunities to win, so a new all-time World Cup victory record may be just a question of a few weeks!

For full details of all the weekend's World Cup action, visit the FIS discipline websites!

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