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Igls, Austria • American pair Shauna Rohbock and Valerie Fleming won their first women's World Cup bobsled race of the season Friday.

They were third after the opening run before posting the fastest second-run time to finish in an aggregate 1 minute, 48.50 seconds and beat Anja Schneiderheinze-Stoeckel and Christin Senkel of Germany by 0.09 seconds.

Fabienne Meyer and Hanne Schenk of Switzerland were another 0.11 back in third.

Sandra Kiriasis and Stephanie Schneider of Germany, who won three of four previous races this season, remained atop the standings with 1,061 points. Cathleen Martini and Romy Logsch of Germany followed with 1,003, and Meyer and Schenk were third with 896. Rohbock, from Orem, and Fleming are in fifth with 805 points.

A two-men bobsled race in Igls is scheduled for Saturday

Women's skeleton

Anja Huber of Germany won her third skeleton World Cup race of the season on Friday at Igls, Austria.

The Olympic bronze medalist finished her two runs in a combined time of 1 minute, 51.10 seconds to beat Shelley Rudman of Britain by 0.17 seconds. Mellisa Hollingsworth of Canada was third.

Huber extended her lead in the World Cup standings. The German has 1,075 points, followed by Rudman at 1,024.

Super-combined

Ivica Kostelic won a World Cup super-combined event Friday to extend his lead in the overall standings with a third victory in 12 days. Bode Miller was the top American in sixth place at Wengen, Switzerland.

Kostelic dominated the afternoon slalom run, after placing sixth in the downhill, for a combined two-leg time of 2 minutes 40.44 seconds. Carlo Janka of Switzerland was second, 0.58 seconds back. Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway was third. Park City native Ted Ligety used the second-best slalom run to place ninth.

Miller, who edged Kostelic for the Olympic super-combined gold medal last February, was 1.68 back. The American got his best result of the season in a traditional World Cup race.

Ligety had the second-fastest slalom run in snowy conditions he described as "horrendous" after days of rain and warm weather.

"The course is just bottomless slush," said Ligety, who finished 23rd in the downhill. Ligety stayed fifth in the overall standings.

Nordic combined

A rebuilding U.S. Ski Team was seventh in a FIS World Cup Nordic Combined team event Friday in Seefeld, Austria. Bryan Fletcher led the four-man American squad, which also saw the return of three-time Olympic silver medalist Johnny Spillane to action after a six month rehab from a knee injury. Norway came from behind to beat the Austrians by nearly 12 seconds.