Switzerland also celebrates a double victory in the World Cup downhill in Val Gardena/Gröden. Marco Odermatt wins ahead of Franjo von Allmen. Odermatt will also be the top favorite in the giant slalom on Sunday.
Swiss in first and second place on the Saslong - on this course of all places, where the Swiss-Ski athletes have recently struggled to win. It has been 14 years since the last time the Swiss Psalm was played after a downhill on the 1970 World Championship slope. The winner back then was Silvan Zurbriggen.
The following winter, Beat Feuz dominated the super-G at the same venue. That was to be it for first places for the Swiss. It is the second double success in the second downhill of the season. In Beaver Creek, Colorado, two weeks ago, Justin Murisier triumphed ahead of Odermatt in his first World Cup victory.
Odermatt won the race with a lead of 45 hundredths. Behind him, the times were much closer. Von Allmen is just one and two hundredths ahead of the American Ryan Cochran-Siegle and the Frenchman Nils Allègre respectively.
The decision in the Swiss duel was made in the passage over the Ciaslat meadow. In this undulating section, Odermatt was 88 hundredths faster than his young team-mate. Von Allmen, for his part, laid the foundations for his second podium finish in the World Cup with a successful run in the top section of the course. The man from Bern, who only completed his tenth downhill at this level on Saturday, had already made it into the top three with third place in the second super-G in Garmisch at the end of January.
This is Odermatt's third victory in the current World Cup winter, his third in a downhill after his double in Wengen at the start of the year. This is the 40th time in total that he has finished first in the World Cup, putting him on a par with Swiss record holder Pirmin Zurbriggen. Thanks to his victory, he also takes the lead in the overall and discipline rankings.
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