Tommy Moe, one of the American stars of the Winter Olympics, captured his first World Cup victory Sunday when he won the super giant slalom.
Moe, of Palmer, Alaska, covered the course in 1 minute, 31.22 seconds to win $7,000.Marc Giarardelli of Luxembourg was second in 1:31.93 to win $4,000, while Italy's Werner Perathoner was third in 1:32.05 to earn $2,000.
Cary Mullen of Banff, Alberta, was the top Canadian, finishing fifth in 1:32.30.
Moe was third in Saturday's downhill.
Bad weather and poor snow have made super-Gs a rare species on the World Cup circuit this year. Sunday's race was only the fourth super-G of the season.
The same warm temperatures and threatening skies greeted the super-G racers as confronted the downhillers on Saturday.
Norway's Atle Skaardal won the downhill race. It was his second victory at Whistler in two years. Austria's Hannes Trinkl was second, followed by Moe, a double Olympic medalist.
Weather created problems all week for race organizers. Rain cancelled Thursday's training. Soft snow conditions and bad visibility delayed the start of Saturday's race.
At Lake Placid, N.Y., Melanie Turgeon of Canada won a battle of attrition, overcoming a difficult second run to win the women's giant slalom Sunday at the World Junior Alpine Skiing Championships at Whiteface Mountain.
Turgeon, 17, won her third medal of the championship. She posted the fastest times in both runs held on the Olympic mountain's Parkway course. Her first run time of 1 minute, 8.29 seconds gave her a 0.4 second lead over Fujiko Sekino of France. But many of the contenders faltered in the second run, including Sekino.
Turgeon's second run, clocking 1:11.00, gave her a two-run total of 2:19.29, defeating Karin Roten of Switzerland by 1.32 seconds. Roten, who wom Switzerland's first medal of the championships, recorded times of 1:08.79 and 1:11.78 for an aggregate time of 2:20.57.
Barbara Raggl of Austria won the bronze medal in 2:20.61, with individual run times of 1:08.78 and 1:11.78.
"It's surprising because all the runs I have here are bad," said Turgeon, who also won silver in the super giant slalom and bronze in the downhill. "They don't feel good, but I guess that's because I'm trying to let the skis run fast."
Turgeon leads in the combined heading into Monday's slalom finale.
Canada and Germany each have four medals in this competition, while France has three, Austria and Russia two each, and Norway and the United States one each.