( CNN ) -- Two years ago Lindsey Vonn suffered heartbreak when the weather gods robbed her of skiing 's prestigious World Cup overall title . Fast-forward to 2013 and it is Vonn 's turn to thank the elements as the American has been handed the World Cup downhill crown for a record sixth year in a row -- despite being sidelined with a serious knee injury . She held off Slovenia 's Tina Maze by just a single point after bad fog forced the abandonment of the season 's final downhill race in Lenzerheide in Switzerland on Wednesday . Vonn wrote on her Facebook page : `` Omg I won the World Cup Downhill title ! ! ! ! ! 6 in a row with a bum knee ! Everything in life comes back around . # believe # karma # onelegvictorydance # sochi2014 . '' The Sochi hashtag is a reference to next February 's Winter Olympics in Russia , where the 28-year-old hopes to defend her downhill gold from Vancouver 2010 . She has now won 17 Crystal Globes -- handed out for the overall title and each of the six disciplines competed for each season . It puts her two short of male skiing legend Ingemar Stenmark , who holds the record of 19 . Vonn was airlifted to hospital on the opening day of February 's world championships at Schladming , Austria , where she suffered a torn ACL and MCL in her right knee and a lateral tibial plateau fracture after crashing in the super G race . After losing out to Maria Hofl-Riesch by just three points in agonizing circumstances following the cancellation of her race in 2011 , Vonn was understandably thrilled with her latest success . It had looked unlikely with overall World Cup champion Maze expected to overturn the one-point deficit , but fog at the bottom section of the racecourse forced a cancellation . Going into the final event , Vonn led the standings with 340 points despite missing the preceding races at Meribel and Garmisch , with Maze right behind her . Hofl-Riesch ended up third and Vonn 's U.S. teammate Stacy Cook was fourth . Maze took to Twitter to congratulate Vonn , writing : `` I guess the DH globe belongs to someone else , Congratulation Lindsey ! What goes around comes around ! '' Vonn overtook Annemarie Moser-Proll , who won five consecutive downhill titles between 1971-75 on her way to seven globes in the discipline . Vonn also eclipsed the Austrian 's 16 globes . In the men 's World Cup , Aksel Lund Svindal was declared downhill champion after Wednesday 's event was called off . The Norwegian , who has now won nine globes during his career , boasted a 58-point advantage over defending champion Klaus Kroll of Austria going into Finals week . Svindal 's victory makes him just the seventh man in the sport 's history to win the downhill and super-G titles in the same season .
Ingemar Stenmark wins sixth successive downhill title after final race canceled . U.S. has been out of action since beginning of February with serious knee injury . Norway star now has two Crystal Globes , just two behind Ingemar Stenmark . Vonn 's Aksel Lund Svindal wins men 's downhill event .