GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany >> Swiss ski star Lara Gut-Behrami has finally found a way back to winning ways, with next month’s world championships looming.

The defending overall World Cup champion overcame challenging course conditions Sunday to win the last super-G before the worlds for her first victory of the season, while Lindsey Vonn placed 13th.

Gut-Behrami mastered the tricky turns in the middle part of the Kandahar course to earn career win No. 46, which put her in joint fifth place on the all-time female winners list.

“It’s nice. I was skiing well since a while, still missing something, so it’s great to be able to win again,” Gut-Behrami said.

“It’s a challenging slope, it’s not the conditions where I ski the best. It was a little bit slippery, a little bit soft. Sometimes when you don’t have the perfect conditions for yourself, you stop thinking.”

The worlds take place in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria on Feb. 4-16. The first individual race is the women’s super-G on Feb. 6.

The technically outstanding Gut-Behrami was especially clean in a passage that caused many racers problems — a jump followed by a sharp turn left.

She was 0.35 seconds faster than Kajsa Vickhoff Lie of Norway, who captured her first of eight career podiums at a super-G in Garmisch-Partenkirchen four years ago.

Federica Brignone was three-hundredths further back in third, a day after the Italian won the downhill on the same hill.

Keely Cashman shared sixth place with Bassino for the American’s career-best result, and it came on a course where she suffered traumatic brain and knee injuries in a horrific downhill crash in 2021.

“I know it’s four years ago but it’s not something you really get over that quickly,” said Cashman, who had one previous top 10 result in 68 World Cup starts.

“To start today with a new mindset was something I was really trying to do, and have my personal best in some place like Garmisch... feels really good.”

Vonn finished 1.4 seconds off the pace in 13th, just behind her American teammate Lauren Macuga, after failing to finish her previous two races. The American standout skied out of Saturday’s downhill when she missed a gate, but avoided falling.

Last year, Gut-Behrami overtook leader Mikaela Shiffrin in the overall standings in the last two months of the season when the American five-time champion was out nursing a knee injury.

Gut-Behrami has now won at least one World Cup race in 11 of the past 12 seasons, with 2018-19 the only exception.

She closed the gap to leader Brignone in the overall season standings to 70 points.

Shiffrin has been out for two months with an abdominal injury that required surgery, but the American is expected to race again in a night slalom in France on Thursday, the final women’s race before the worlds.