Alexis Monney outdoes the competition with bib number 19
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The man from Fribourg distances the competition by just under a quarter of a second and celebrates his first World Cup victory
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Franjo von Allmen comes closest to his teammate and celebrates his second podium finish within a week
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Marco Odermatt narrowly misses out on the podium in fifth place after a scare
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Justin Murisier finishes in 6th place just one hundredth behind Odermatt
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Alexis Monney outdoes the competition with bib number 19
Image: Keystone
The man from Fribourg distances the competition by just under a quarter of a second and celebrates his first World Cup victory
Image: Keystone
Franjo von Allmen comes closest to his teammate and celebrates his second podium finish within a week
Image: Keystone
Marco Odermatt narrowly misses out on the podium in fifth place after a scare
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Justin Murisier finishes in 6th place just one hundredth behind Odermatt
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Super performance by the Swiss downhill skiers in Bormio: Alexis Monney wins ahead of compatriot Franjo Von Allmen and Canadian Cameron Alexander. Marco Odermatt manages to avoid a crash in extremis and finishes fifth. Justin Murisier and Marco Kohler also make it into the top 10.
Alexis Monney takes his first World Cup victory. He wins the Bormio downhill ahead of his team-mate Franjo Von Allmen. It is the third Swiss double victory in the third downhill of the season. It is 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.
Monney: "A strange feeling"
"It's a strange feeling, but it's cool," beams the French-speaking Swiss in an interview with SRF after the race. "Unbelievable! It was almost too easy today, normally it's much more difficult here," Monney continued. "I thought after training that a good result was possible. But not that it would be so good straight away."
The whole thing is even better, he says, because it's even a double victory in the end. Monney: "Wonderful. Franjo is a great guy, he was really happy for me. It's really nice."
For Von Allmen, it is 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.
Scary moment for Odermatt
One day after Cyprien Sarrazin's terrible crash, Marco Odermatt experienced a moment of shock. The leader in the downhill classification snowed 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, another Swiss racer, Justin Murisier, finished in 6th place. 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 (12th) completed the strong Swiss result with six racers in the top eleven.
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