Austria’s Hermann Maier, center, celebrates his win with silver medalist John Kucera, left, and bronze medalist Didier Cuche, following the men’s Super-G World Cup Alpine ski race in Lake Louise, Alberta, on Sunday.

LAKE LOUISE, Alberta — Hermann Maier of Austria won a super-G on Sunday for his 54th career World Cup win.

Maier, who last won a World Cup race in January 2006 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, won in 1 minute, 29.84 seconds.

“To win here is a great feeling,” said Maier, whose training was hampered since September because of a disc problem in his lower back. “Today I risked. You can’t win a race without risk.”

John Kucera of Canada was second in 1:30.43, and Didier Cuche of Switzerland was third in 1:30.52.

Defending overall champion Bode Miller, who finished 16th in Saturday’s downhill, lost a ski before the halfway mark and did not finish. Miller skied past the finish area without talking to reporters.

Daniel Albrecht of Switzerland finished eighth in the super-G but leads the overall standings with 156 points. Cuche is second with 140 points, and Jean-Baptiste Grange of France is third with 122, one more than Miller.

Maier won the last of his four overall titles in 2004, and the 35-year-old Austrian has overcome some spectacular crashes in his amazing career to race at the top level.

Maier returned to the circuit and won a super-G and a downhill just before the Turin Games, where he then won a silver medal in the super-G and bronze in the giant slalom.

In the super-G standings, Maier leads with 100 points after the first race of the season in that discipline.

Peter Fill of Italy, who won Saturday’s downhill, finished 18th.

The next men’s World Cup races — a combined, downhill, super-G and giant slalom — will be in Beaver Creek, Colo.

Also on Sunday:

Czech gets first World Cup win

ASPEN, Colo. — Sarka Zahrobska got her first World Cup victory Sunday, taking the slalom in a combined time of 1:39.32 to beat Austrian Nicole Hosp.

The Czech beat Hosp by .23 seconds in blustery, icy conditions. Tanja Poutianinen of Finland was third in 1:40.29.

Zahrobska had three second-place finishes and two thirds in her 114 previous World Cup starts since 2002.

Lindsey Vonn was the top American, taking fourth with a time of 1:40.73 in a solid follow-up to her slalom victory at Levi, Finland, earlier this month. Fellow American Julia Mancuso was disqualified after missing a gate near the end of the first run.

Vonn, who bruised her left knee two weeks ago in training, also finished fourth in Saturday’s giant slalom, a personal best.