The back-to-back Olympic champion in the discipline won in a combined time of 2 mins 29.51 sec but had to overhaul a 0.02 gap on her second run, with Slovenian Ana Drev being the quickest down first time around.

Drev would eventually have to settle for silver, 0.94 adrift of Rebensburg, with Federica Brignone of Italy claiming a third bronze medal of the season by coming in 0.99 behind the German.

Overall World Cup leader Lara Gut of Switzerland had to settle for 19th place in 2:32.42 while her nearest challenger, America's Lindsey Vonn, failed to finish her second run after splitting her skis and crashing out.

“It's a pretty good feeling,” said 26-year-old Rebensburg.

“I mean this is always for sure the best feeling, being up on the podium."

The second run started with the sun shining but snow came back in the afternoon, making the visibility tougher for the last 15 racers.

"For sure, it was not so easy in the second run with the conditions, but yeah, in the end it worked out," Rebensburg added.

Gut, who made a mistake on the lower part of the course, has still extended her World Cup lead due to Vonn's failure to finish.

She now has 750 points, 50 more than the American.

Elsewhere, Henrik Kristoffersen ensured a clean sweep for Norway at the men's World Cup in Wengen, Switzerland, as he took slalom victory.

The Sochi 2014 bronze medallist has now won four times in the discipline this season with his latest triumph coming in a time of 1:37.85.

Two Italians took up the remaining medal places, with Giuliano Razzoli 0.30 back in second and Stefano Gross 0.68 behind in third.

"I had a pretty good feeling the whole way," said Kristoffersen, who followed up Norwegian success in Wengen for Kjetil Jansrud, in the Alpine combined, and Aksel Lund Svindal in the downhill.

"I pushed really hard both in the first and second run.

"It's kind of tiring, but the feeling was good for sure."

Austria's Marcel Hirscher, the winner of the last four overall World Cups, missed the chance to reclaim back this year's lead after a mistake led to him failing to finishing his first run.

Svindal had taken the lead from Hirscher thanks to his downhill success, and remains in front of the Austrian with 816 points ahead of his rival's 801.

The men's World Cup season will resume in Kitzbühel in Austria from January 22, with the women heading to Cortina d'Ampezzo in Italy from January 23.