The full name for the race is the super giant slalom and it was first included in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.

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However, Canada's Kucera lost the chance to compete in his home Olympics when he broke his left leg after crashing in the super-giant slalom at Lake Louise in Alberta last month.

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Shiffrin's victory is the U.S.'s fourth of the championships -- adding to Ted Ligety's wins in the Super-G, the Giant Slalom and the Super Combined -- and consolidates their place at the top of the medal's table with a total of four gold and one bronze.

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Maze also won the super-G gold at the recent world championships in Schladming in Austria and claimed two silvers in the super-combined and giant slalom.

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Ligety, who had won gold in the Super-G, super-combined and giant slalom, was the first man to achieve such a feat since Claude Killy in 1968.

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Maze has already secured the overall and giant slalom titles and now leads in the slalom and the super-G disciplines.

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Finland's Tanja Poutianen finished fourth while Slovakia's Tina Maze -- who took gold in the Super-G and silver in the Giant Slalom -- finished fifth.

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The fact that she had done so well in the super-G, which was even less her discipline than the giant slalom, made me think that we were about to witness something pretty special.

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