(sda) Odermatt missed its second World Cup victory in Super-G after the one in Beaver Creek, Colorado, in December penultimate, by just twelve hundredths. It was only the second time that the Swiss man made it into the top three in this discipline.
The duel with Kriechmayr was decided on the finish slope. In the last intermediate time after the Traverse, Odermatt was still a hundredth ahead of the Austrian. Kriechmayr and Odermatt were well ahead of the competition. Kriechmayr’s third-placed team-mate Matthias Mayer, already second and third in the downhill runs on Friday and Sunday, was already more than half a second behind the best time as third.
Loïc Meillard also showed a strong performance. The Neuchâtel, who only contested his fourth Super-G in the World Cup and for the first time ever a race on the Hahnenkamm, finished ninth and was thus classified better than ever before. Beat Feuz retired after a goal mistake.
Kriechmayr celebrated his first win of the season and took over the lead in the Super-G classification from Mauro Caviezel. Like the winners of the two previous Super-Gs, the Norwegian Aleksander Kilde and the American Ryan Cochran-Siegle, the Graubünden driver, who had dominated the start in Val d’Isère, did not start due to injury.
With his seventh World Cup victory, Kriechmayr also rehabilitated himself for his achievements in the two downhill runs on the Streif, in which he fell well short of expectations with places 9 and 17.
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