Berlin, 9 December 2023 (dpa/MIA) — Mikaela Shiffrin pipped Friday's super-g winner Sofia Goggia for a rare downhill World Cup victory on Saturday in Switzerland to take her overall winning tally to 91.

The race was abandoned after 35 of 56 starters when gusty wind set in but the result stand.

American Shiffrin conquered the 2.521-kilometres Corviglia in St Moritz in previously perfect conditions in 1 minute 28.84 seconds to win the first downhill of the season.

Goggia trailed by .15 of a second in second place and fellow Italian Federica Brignone was third on the podium, another two-hundredths back.

German talent Emma Aicher impressed with a career best sixth place in the discipline.

The race was later interrupted after a crash from Austrian Elisabeth Reisinger, with the nature of possible injuries not immediately known.

Shiffrin's win was only her fourth in a downhill and her third of the season, following slalom top spots in Levi and Killington.

Shiffrin tops the World Cup where she seeks a women's record eqaulling sixth title in a season without Olympics or world championships.

"It was really great today, I felt great. It went exactly as I had hoped. The challenge was not to think that I had to chase a supposedly ideal line that someone else had skied. I tried to shut that off," Shiffrin said.

Another super-g is scheduled for Sunday in St Moritz.

The men were also in action Saturday, contesting a giant slalom in Val d'Ìsere, France.