Lindsey Vonn placed fifth in the world championships super combined on Thursday, while Swiss Wendy Holdener and Michelle Gisin gave the hosts a one-two finish in St. Moritz.
Vonn finished an Olympics or worlds super combined for the first time in 12 years, an encouraging result going into her final event at worlds, the downhill on Sunday (6 a.m. ET, NBCSports.com/live and the NBC Sports app).
She had failed to complete the slalom portion of the event in 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2015.
Vonn was sixth-fastest in the morning downhill, but, skiing with her injured right hand taped to her ski pole, moved up in the afternoon slalom, her weakest discipline, to finish .