Elisabeth Goergl beat fellow Austrian Anna Fenninger in the women's World Cup super-G at Val d'Isere on Sunday as Lindsey Vonn crashed out.
Elisabeth Goergl on her way to victory in the World Cup Women's Super-G on December 21, 2014 in Val d'Isere, French Alps
Vonn was seeking to follow up Saturday's downhill win in the French Alps which put her to within one of Annemarie Moser-Proell's all-time World Cup record of 62.
But as the American snow queen's record-equalling bid failed to take off Goergl was celebrating a tight five hundredths of a second win over Olympic champion Fenninger.
The 33-year-old slalom and super-G world champion in 2011, who had come in second to Vonn in the downhill 24 hours earlier, clocked a time of 1min 25.42 seconds.
This was her seventh World Cup win and she nailed it with a lightning final section at more than 106kph.
"My coaches inspected the slope and gave me all the information on the complicated bits of the circuit," said Goergl.
"I felt I was skiing fast but before I arrived at the bottom of the run I didn't think it was going to be enough to win."
Slovenia's Tina Maze finished in third, and following Saturday's fourth place, she retained control of the overall World Cup standings.
For defending World Cup champion Fenninger this was a bolder performance than her 11th place in the downhill.
She said: "I'm thrilled to be back in business after some tricky races.
"It was far from easy today, there were lots of changes in rhythm to handle, very fast sections and others that were slower.
"Without one little mistake I could have posted the best time."
Fenninger started well before her speed dropped off a little on a demanding Oreiller Killy slope which proved the measure of a number of competitors, including Vonn.
Any fears that this latest fall may have had damaging repercussions following the serious in knee injury she suffered in a high speed crash in 2013 were unfounded.
"I was a little tired," reported Vonn.
"I hurt my elbow when I fell, but my knee is fine."
Another favourite, Switzerland's defending World Cup super-G titleholder Lara Gut, posted a time of 1min 25.65 with her run marred by a mistake as she approached the finish.