CREDIT: JOE KLAMAR/AFP/Getty Images Canada’s Emily Brydon competes in the Women’s combined slalom at the alpine FIS World Cup in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, 14 January 2007. US Julia Mancuso won ahead of her teammate Lindsay C Kildow and Austria’s Marlies Schild, Brydon shares 9th place with Ingrid Jacquemod of France.

ALTENMARKT-ZAUCHENSEE, Austria — Julia Mancuso and Lindsey Kildow captured the top two places in a World Cup super-combi on Sunday, and Resi Stiegler just missed making it an American sweep. Mancuso had a combined time of two minutes 9.16 seconds to edge Kildow by 0.06 seconds. The pair had the best times in the morning downhill portion of the event, and held onto their places in the afternoon slalom run. Slalom specialist Marlies Schild of Austria was third, and Stiegler was fourth in 2:21.09 — a fifth of a second behind Schild for the third spot on the podium. “What a great victory for me, but for the team also,” Mancuso said. “This is one of the best days for American skiing since a very long time.” Emily Brydon of Fernie, B.C., was ninth while Shona Rubens of Canmore, Alta., was 18th and Britt Janyk of Whistler, B.C. 19th. Montreal’s Emilie Desforges finished 25th. Mancuso led Kildow by 0.88 seconds after the downhill portion, and said she knew that margin would be sliced in the slalom. “My good downhill time helped me a lot,” Mancuso said. “I did not have to do anything special in the slalom — just make my own race and avoid errors. It was not my best slalom ever, but I made it a consistent one.” Kildow, who had crashed the day earlier in a downhill, closed the gap but could not catch her teammate. “I was a bit nervous for today’s races after my crash on Saturday,” Kildow said. “I would have been happy if I had just finished my slalom run. Really awesome that I did so well. “And I did not just finish, it was a really good run as well. This was a great performance from the whole team. I hope it will give a big boost to the ski sports in America.” Sweden’s Anja Paerson, fourth after the downhill, was on track to win the super-combi until she missed a gate just before the slalom finish. Schild, who won the only previous super-combi this season in December, retained her lead in the super-combi and overall World Cup standings. Schild has 160 super-combi points, followed by Kildow with 116 and Mancuso with 115. In the overall standings, Schild leads with 881 points. Austrians Nicole Hosp (748) and Kathrin Zettel (562) are second and third. Mancuso is fifth with 534 points, and Kildow is sixth with 528.