On the first competition day at the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch , Germany , she once again proved her strength at big events by winning the silver medal in the super-G . A month later she won her first World Cup race in over four years , a victory in the downhill at the World Cup finals in Lenzerheide , Switzerland . Since this was a few days after a terrible earthquake and tsunami in Japan , she launched a fundraiser by pledging half her race earnings of the World Cup finals to the skiershelpingjapan.com campaign website
terrible earthquake and tsunami in Japan
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
Julia Mancuso