Alexis Monney is on his way to his first World Cup victory. The 24-year-old from Fribourg leads the downhill in Bormio after 30 racers ahead of his team-mate Franjo von Allmen.
28.12.2024, 12:48
28.12.2024, 12:51
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It would be the third Swiss double victory in the third downhill of the season. It would be a first for Monney. He has never finished higher than 8th place, which he secured in the downhill in Kitzbühel in January.
In Bormio, Monney surprised the competition with bib number 19 and a spirited run. Not quite among the fastest at the top, he turned up the heat as the race progressed. In the second part of the course, nobody could match Monney's time. At the finish, he distanced Von Allmen, who had been in the lead up to that point and was hoping for the first World Cup victory of his career, by 24 hundredths.
For Von Allmen, it would be the third podium finish of his career, the second in the downhill and the second within a week. Shortly before Christmas, he celebrated his podium premiere in the supreme discipline in Val Gardena/Gröden in second place.
One day after Cyprien Sarrazin's terrible crash, Marco Odermatt experienced a moment of shock. The leader in the downhill rankings had a snowfall in the middle section, but was able to save himself with a lot of skill and luck. The skier from Nidwalden crossed the finish line with a deployed airbag and still almost made it onto the podium in fifth place. In the end, he was just eight hundredths behind the Canadian Cameron Alexander.
Just one hundredth behind Odermatt was another Swiss, Justin Murisier. The winner of the downhill in Beaver Creek missed out on a possible podium in the lowest section of the course. Marco Kohler (9th) and Stefan Rogentin (11th) completed the strong Swiss result with six skiers after 30 athletes in the first eleven.
