The Swiss also dominate the fourth World Cup downhill of the winter. Marco Odermatt and Franjo von Allmen ensure another double victory on the Lauberhorn.
Odermatt was 37 hundredths faster than his young team-mate, who had been the best in the super-G the day before - and in which Odermatt had to settle for 7th place. The Slovenian Miha Hrobat, who started with the number 1, lost 57 hundredths of a second on the best time. The next best Swiss skiers were Justin Murisier and the once again amazing Lars Rösti in 7th and 8th place.
On the day before his 27th birthday, Rösti achieved his best result to date in a World Cup downhill and equaled his absolute best. The Bernese skier also achieved 8th place a month ago in the downhill in Val Gardena/Gröden. Stefan Rogentin, third in the super-G the day before, followed in 12th place.
The day after the super-G, Odermatt showed the expected reaction and took his third victory in a downhill on the Lauberhorn. Last season, he had won both the substitute competition for one of the two canceled races in Beaver Creek, Colorado, on a shortened course and the downhill over the original distance.
Fourth Swiss double victory in the fourth downhill race
With victory number 43 in the World Cup, Odermatt once again completed half a dozen first places this winter. He had previously dominated the giant slaloms in Val d'Isère, Alta Badia and Adelboden, the super-G in Beaver Creek and the downhill in Val Gardena/Gröden.
Von Allmen used his high to produce another magnificent performance, which was anything but a matter of course after the hype surrounding his premiere victory a good 24 hours earlier. However, the man from the Bernese Oberland was able to ignore the past as well as the increased expectations and focus on his task once again.
Together, Odermatt and Von Allmen ensured that the magnificent Swiss series in the downhill continued. What the Swiss-Ski athletes had already achieved in the first three downhill races became a reality. In Beaver Creek, Murisier celebrated his World Cup victory premiere ahead of Odermatt, in Val Gardena/Gröden Odermatt also won ahead of Von Allmen and in Bormio Alexis Monney again ahead of Von Allmen.
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