(Reuters) – Swiss skier Marco Odermatt cemented his standing as an Olympic favorite with victory on dwelling snow in Wengen, the last men’s Alpine World Cup super-G before subsequent month’s Beijing Winter Games.
The 24-year-old general World Cup chief accomplished the lengthy Lauberhorn run in a single minute 29 seconds to beat Norwegian rival Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, the chief of the super-G standings and winner of the earlier three races, by 0.23.
It was his sixth win of the season and second in super-G after 4 in large slalom.
Austria’s reigning Olympic champion Matthias Mayer was third on a sunny afternoon.
“It was an ideal day,” Odermatt instructed Swiss tv. “I used to be already feeling good this morning, nevertheless it was very shut with Kilde. He was fast on the high, however fortunately on the underside he misplaced time.”
Odermatt began seventh, with Kilde going eleventh and with a transparent goal that he couldn’t match on a bodily and sweeping piste.
Germany’s Romed Baumann was fourth and Canada’s James Crawford fifth quickest.
Vincent Kriechmayr, Austria’s 2021 super-G and downhill world champion, returned from COVID-19 isolation to complete ninth.
Kriechmayr appears set to overlook Friday and Saturday downhills, nevertheless, after being unable to participate within the two obligatory coaching periods. There is not any coaching required to race within the super-G.
Thursday’s race was initially scheduled for Lake Louise, Canada, after which Bormio before an additional change.
(Reporting by Alan Baldwin in London, enhancing by Pritha Sarkar)
