Alpine skiing-Vonn equals record with 62nd World Cup win

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* Vonn wins Cortina downhill * American equals Moser-Proell's record of 62 World Cup wins (Adds detail) CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy, Jan 18 (Reuters) - American Lindsey Vonn equalled Austrian Annemarie Moser-Proell's 35-year-old record of 62 women's Alpine skiing World Cup victories when she won a downhill in Cortina d'Ampezzo on Sunday. The four times World Cup overall winner and 2010 Olympic champion, who returned to action this season after a year out due to knee operations, can now break the record in Monday's Super-G in the same Italian resort. Vonn, 30, also celebrated her 32nd downhill win -- four fewer than Moser-Proell who set her record between 1970 and 1980.

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