Maria Hoefl-Riesch's Historic Gold Medal Win at Sochi 2014 🥇

Maria Hoefl-Riesch Big Gold medal win Sochi Olympcs (2014). Gold Medical winner Maria Hoefi-Riesch, German Maria Hoefl-Riesh. One gold down for Maria Hoefl-Riesch, and more chances to come.The German skier won her third Olympic gold medal in only her sixth Olympic race Monday, using her slalom skills to surge ahead of her rivals and take the super-combined title.

Hoefl-Riesch is now poised to make Alpine history at the Sochi Olympics. With her third career gold medal, she is only one behind all-time leaders Kjetil Andre Aamodt of Norway and Janica Kostelic of Croatia.

Her total time of 2 minutes, 34.62 seconds was 0.40 seconds faster than silver medalist Nicole Hosp of Austria. Hoefl-Riesch was 0.53 better than first-run leader Julia Mancuso, whose bronze was her fourth career Olympic medal in Alpine skiing, twice as many as any other U.S. woman has won.