Mikaela Shiffrin and Breezy Johnson win the team as team combined in Alpine Skiing World Championships

Saalbach-Hintergymm, Austria (AP) -Mikaela Shiffrin won a World Championship Medal of records record and Johnson Breezy became a double world champion on Tuesday when the US couple took gold in the new team combined.

Shiffrin was the fastest third in the Slalom in the alpine skiing worlds, just over three hours after Johnson recorded the fourth best time in the descent, since together they beat the silver medalists Lara Gut-Berami and Wendy Holdner of Switzerland for 0.39 seconds.

Stephanie Venier and Katharina Truppe de Austria took the bronze.

The Gold was the 15th Shiffrin race medal of the World Championships and coincides with the record established in the 1930s by the German skier Christl Cranz.

It is the second gold medal for Johnson, who He won the descent Last Saturday, two months after he returned from a 14 -month prohibition for three violations of the “whereabouts” anti -doping rules.

“It’s quite crazy. I think that if you had told us when we met that we would join to win a world championship medal, I think none of us would have believed it, “said Johnson, who has been a friend, and skiing, with Shiffrin since his youth.

Shiffrin said: “So many things had to happen in the last one … how long has passed since we were 11 years old. For this to happen, we needed a new event completely. This was an incredible day for me there, stressful because Breezy made Her work spectacularly this morning.

Reacting to the 15th Shiffrin race medal in the worlds, Johnson joked: “If we continue adding team events, we may obtain 32 for her or something like that”, before adding: “She is a legend, it is very great to give My step and has obviously been in his for a decade. ”

The combined team implies a corridor that competes in a race downhill and another in a Slalom, with its twice added to determine the final results.

The combined team will make its debut at the Milan-Cortina Olympic Games next year.

Lauren Macuga had published the fastest time in the descent, but his American team fell to fourth place and a medal was lost by 0.11 seconds after Paula Moltzen ran in the Slalom.

Lindsey Vonn finished the decrease 2.51 seconds of the advantage in position 21 of 26 headlines and ended in 16º with his teammate AJ Hurt.

Recovered from an abdominal injury that required surgery in December, Shiffrin He competed in his first event in the world.

Initially he planned to compete in the Giant Slalom, as a defender champion, and the Slalom, but omit the combined team, then changed his mind on Monday when he did not feel ready to compete on Thursday’s GS.

With GS training at her schedule, she decided to enter the combined team.

Vonn had Campaign To compete with Shiffrin in an American team that would have linked the two most successful skiers in the history of the World Cup, but the coaching staff decided to form the teams based on the “best results of the season” both on the back and down and In Slalom.

“It would have been great if those two greats had run together, but at this time others are stronger in their performance,” said Speed American Alex Hoedlmoseer coach. “We had to make sure to unite the fastest matches, and it was very obvious that Breezy was the fastest in the descent and, therefore, would compete with Mikaela.”

After his exhibition downhill, the American star Vonn said: “I had no speed … I tried to do my best, as always. Unfortunately, it was not my world championship. The skis are fast, but for me something is wrong with my boots and in the turns I do not get any speed. I stayed in my tuck but it was a turtle all the way. “

Vonn left retirement, after almost six years, at 40 years this season with a new Titanium knee. She scored two Top 10 finished in the World Cup circuit in January, but did not finish the super-g and occupied the 15th position in the descent in the worlds.