Skiing

Austrian wins back-to-back women’s downhills — Austrian skier Ramona Siebenhofer won her second World Cup downhill in two days, while Lindsey Vonn finished tied for ninth Saturday in the second race of her return from injury. Siebenhofer, who had her first career win in Friday’s race, finished a slim 0.04 seconds ahead of Austrian teammate Nicole Schmidhofer. Downhill world champion Ilka Stuhec of Slovenia came third, 0.51 behind. In the first downhill on Friday, Bend’s Laurenne Ross earned her best result of the World Cup season, finishing ninth to lead all Americans; Vonn was 15th.

Kriechmayr takes men’s downhill — Vincent Kriechmayr found the special run it takes to beat Beat Feuz in Switzerland and won a World Cup downhill on Saturday. Austria’s Kriechmayr was 0.14 seconds faster than Feuz, finishing in 2 minutes, 28.36 seconds — the longest World Cup race. Feuz, the pre-race favorite, had won each downhill in Switzerland for three years. Aleksander Aamodt Kilde was third, 0.26 behind, after leading Kriechmayr by 0.01 at the final time split. That pushed Kilde’s Norway teammate Aksel Lund Svindal into fourth. Bryce Bennett of the United States extended his consistent run in fifth place, 0.63 back.

Figure Skating

Former U.S. pairs champion commits suicide — John Coughlin, a two-time U.S. pairs champion recently suspended from figure skating, died by suicide in Kansas City, Missouri. He was 33. Coughlin received an interim suspension from the U.S. Center for SafeSport and USFS on Thursday for unspecified conduct. He was barred from any activities sanctioned by the skating body or the U.S. Olympic Committee. USA Today first reported the death.

— From wire reports