BEAVER CREEK, Colo. — Tina Maze kicked a cartwheel across the finish area. She had reason to celebrate: She had just won the combined event at the World Ski Championships for her third medal, and her second gold, in three events, firmly establishing herself as the most dominant woman in ski racing.
“It’s special for me because I was always one of the favorites, but I never managed to win it,” Maze said Monday.
The combined event, designed to determine the best all-around skier, features one downhill and one slalom run. Maze’s win came in an aggregate time of 2 minutes 33.37 seconds. Nicole Hosp of Austria took silver, 0.22 of a second behind Maze, and Hosp’s teammate Michaela Kirchgasser finished third. Laurence Ross was the top-placing American, in 14th. Fifth after the downhill, the American Lindsey Vonn was disqualified from the slalom after skiing out in the top section.
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With three medals already, Maze now has her eye on collecting five world championship medals at one event, a feat accomplished only by Lasse Kjus in 1999, when the world championships were last held on American soil.
“I know I can be the one who does the same thing,” Maze said. “I’m looking forward to that.”
A version of this article appears in print on February 10, 2015, on page B11 of the New York edition with the headline: After Winning the Alpine Combined, a Slovene Basks Atop the Skiing World . Order Reprints| Today’s Paper|Subscribe
