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Ilka Stuhec, downhill world champ, gets first win since ACL tear

SELVA DI VAL GARDENA, Italy (AP) — Ilka Stuhec won a World Cup downhill race Tuesday for her first victory since missing all of last season, including the PyeongChang Olympics, with an ACL tear.

The Slovenian skier finished 0.14 seconds ahead of Nicol Delago, who grew up alongside the Saslong course in northern Italy. Ramona Siebenhofer of Austria came third, 0.51 behind. Full results are here.

Stuhec tore her left ACL in an October 2017 preseason training crash on the glacier in Pitztal, Austria.

In 2016-17, Stuhec captured the season-long World Cup downhill title.