user: Article: The American's win in Meribel brought her an 18th crystal globe - awarded for winning a World Cup discipline.
It also leaves the 30-year-old with 66 career World Cup wins and third in the overall World Cup standings.
"It's incredible," said Vonn. "To come back this year to get the downhill title again and to have an amazing season means so much."
She now shares the record for the most downhill titles with Austrian Annemarie Moser-Proell.
Vonn is already the most successful female World Cup Alpine skier of all time, despite suffering two serious knee injuries.
Earlier this year, she overtook Moser-Proell's 35-year record of 62 career World Cup wins in a super-G race in Italy.
Anna Fenninger of Austria and Slovenia's Tina Maze remain ahead of Vonn in the overall World Cup standings with three disciplines to go.
Meribel is the final World Cup meeting of the season.
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Summarize: Lindsey Vonn secured a record-equalling seventh Alpine Skiing World Cup downhill season title.


Problem: Terrance Watson, 55, of Napier Avenue, Jaywick, Essex, died a week after being hit in Broadway in the village on 8 July 2013.
Alan Baker, 73, of Brooklands, Jaywick, denied the charge but was found guilty at Chelmsford Crown Court.
He has been given a 36-week prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, and a two-year driving ban.
Mr Watson was crossing the road outside The Stores when he was struck by Baker's Ford Focus.
Det Sgt Catherine Offord, of Essex Police's Serious Collision Investigation Unit, said Baker was driving between 32 and 34mph when the crash happened.
"Coupled with the speed, Mr Baker was faced with a number of hazards as he approached the scene such as a school minibus, pedestrians, junctions and cars to be overtaken.
"He should have reduced his speed to deal with them. Had he done so the collision would not have occurred," she said.
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A: A man who caused a pedestrian's death by careless driving has not been jailed.


The light aircraft came down in shallow water off Herne Bay during a display in the town on Sunday.
Onlooker Mike Cox, who waded out to the plane, said the pilot had done "an absolutely perfect job of making a controlled ditch in the water".
A spokesman for the pilot's display team said he had been treated for minor injuries and was now back home.
Mr Cox, who had been watching the air show from the beach, said he had been paddling at the water's edge when he first noticed the plane flying close to the sea.
"I started running towards it as it hit the water," he said.
Mr Cox said he arrived at the plane to find the unresponsive pilot "hanging in the harness upside down".
"I think he was very briefly knocked unconscious," he said.
After the man came round, Mr Cox said he was able to unclip himself from the plane before a group of rescuers helped him to shore.
"It was about 20 seconds between the wheels hitting the water, and flipping the plane back up, and about a minute before he was back on shore," Mr Cox said.
The emergency services arrived about 10 minutes later, Mr Cox said.
Praising the pilot, he said: "He could not have done a better job of piloting the plane... and deserves all the credit."
"He chose really shallow water, out of harms of way of spectators," Mr Cox said.
The plane was part of the Turbulent Display Team which had been performing at the town's air show.
In a statement it said the man, who did not wish to be named, had taken the decision to ditch in the sea due to a problem.
Spokeswoman Sam Williams said the pilot, who has flown more than 120 displays over a decade, had made a Mayday call to say he had an engine problem.
"He made a conscious decision to bring the aircraft down following standard procedure.
"Everyone on the team, as well as our colleagues in the air show industry, can't wait to shake his hand to say well done on a calm and collected manner in bringing the aircraft safely down," she said.
Investigations into the cause of the crash are continuing, and the the Air Accidents Investigation Branch has been informed.

Sum: An air show pilot who ditched his plane into the sea in order to steer clear of crowds has been praised.


Problem: The drama, based on a group of gay men living in Manchester, aired in 1999.
There were complaints at the time about its depiction of homosexual sex but it also attracted audiences of 3.5m.
Davies argues that since then attitudes in the UK have changed, with civil partnerships and same-sex marriages, and more public figures being "out".
According to Davies himself though, although "gay equality" has been achieved in certain parts of society, that isn't reflected on television.
"Gay drama can just start catching up with that now. We've got 2000 years to go," he told Channel 4.
The reviews for his three interconnecting series Cucumber (Thursdays at 9pm on Channel 4), and its sister shows Banana (Thursdays at 10pm on E4) and Tofu (available on 4OD) - which tackle sex, love and relationships - have for the most part been favourable.
Here are a selection of the reviews of Queer as Folk from when it was first on screen more than 15 years ago to see if what Davies says about "gay equality", and television, is right.
"This is the first time I've ever seen explicit homosexual sex on television and my main emotion is intense sadness that actors are being exploited in this way," wrote Lynda Lee-Potter.
"Some homosexuals will salute this programme as visionary, brave and true to life.
"Others with more wisdom will recognise the fact that it's exploiting young gay men in order to give cheap thrills to inadequate, sad viewers."
"Call me old fashioned but I think sex is best carried out in private between two consulting adults of the opposite sex," wrote Tony Purcell.
"It appears to be something of a rarity these days.
"Viewers all over the country must have been squirming with embarrassment or reaching for the remote control."
"The best thing about this programme was that gay rights and equality were not made a tub-thumping issue," wrote A A Gill.
"The drama and characters came first, which is as it should be."
"Who needs to repeal Clause 28 [until 2003, Section 28 banned the 'promotion' of homosexuality in schools] when C4 are there to pump out dross like Queer as Folk II?" wrote Garry Bushell about the second series in 2000.
"'Highlights' included the amoral Stuart giving an unlikely gay-and-proud speech to an eight-year-old boy."
"Sure there'll be complaints: there are arses all over the place, and whoa, hang on, was that..? Yes, I think it was.." wrote Sam Wollaston.
"There are seven more episodes - just don't watch them with your parents, or your children - it could be squirmingly embarrassing. But worth watching all the same."
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assistant: Back before Cucumber (on Channel 4 this week) and even before his success with Doctor Who, Russell T Davies was known for writing Queer as Folk.