(Reuters) – Switzerland’s Marco Odermatt received the opening males’s World Cup super-G at Beaver Creek, Colorado on Thursday, selecting up the place he left off final season.
Odermatt, winner of the ultimate World Cup super-G of the 2020-21 season in March, navigated his approach down the Birds of Prey course in a single minute, 8.61 seconds.
The Swiss crossed a commanding 0.78 seconds away from Austria’s Matthias Mayer, winner of the season-opening downhill in Lake Louise final weekend.
Canadian Broderick Thompson shocked the sphere from a begin variety of 35 to seize third place and earn his first World Cup podium end.
Germany’s Andreas Sander was fourth adopted by Austria’s Vincent Kriechmayr, winner of the super-G crystal globe final season, in fifth.
The super-G was the primary race in a packed weekend on the Colorado resort the place a second super-G is scheduled for Friday adopted by a downhill doubleheader on Saturday and Sunday.
(Reporting by Steve Keating in Lake Louise, Modifying by Ed Osmond)
