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Canadian alpine skier Jack Crawford claimed metallic connected Sunday successful a choky men's super-G contention astatine the World Cup halt in Kvitfjell, Norway.
Italy's Dominik Paris shines successful choky contention for 2nd triumph successful 3 days astatine edifice successful Norway
The Associated Press
· Posted: Mar 09, 2025 8:21 AM EDT | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago
Canadian alpine skier Jack Crawford claimed metallic connected Sunday successful a choky men's super-G contention astatine the World Cup halt successful Kvitfjell, Norway.
The 27-year-old from Toronto finished just 0.38 seconds down Italian star Dominik Paris, who made it 2 wins successful 3 days.
Paris was the lone racer to interruption clear on a people shortened by fog connected the mountain, adding to his downhill triumph Friday.
Take Paris retired of Sunday's contention and the apical 25 each would person been wrong 1 2nd of Crawford, the 2023 satellite champion.
Miha Hrobat finished 0.47 seconds down Paris for bronze.
Marco Odermatt placed 4th though his season-long super-G rubric was confirmed successful midweek erstwhile his closest challenger, Paris's teammate Mattia Casse, was injured crashing successful a grooming tally for the downhill.
Paris, the German-speaking Italian with the French-sounding household name, is astir astatine location connected the Norwegian slope that staged the 1994 Olympics races.
He had one World Cup contention victory in 3 years earlier Friday's downhill win.
He present has six of his 24 vocation World Cup wins astatine Kvitfjell, wherever helium besides completed a play treble successful downhill and super-G successful 2019, and won a downhill successful March 2022.
That had been a vocation play for Paris six years ago. He won a career-best 7 World Cup races, positive his lone golden medal — successful super-G astatine the 2019 worlds — and his lone World Cup crystal trophy, for the season-long super-G title. That occurrence each came aft spending the summertime signaling an medium arsenic a vocalist successful a dense metallic band, Rise of Voltage.
Odermatt earned 50 contention points Sunday and has an unbeatable pb of 210 successful the super-G standings earlier the past contention March 23 astatine Sun Valley, Idaho. It is his 3rd consecutive super-G title.
The Swiss superstar's 4th consecutive wide World Cup rubric besides is assured with a 570-point pb implicit Henrik Kristoffersen and conscionable six races left. Though 600 points tin beryllium won, Kristoffersen does not contention successful downhill oregon super-G.
Kristoffersen volition beryllium favored to prime up points adjacent play erstwhile the men's World Cup circuit stays successful Norway for a elephantine slalom and slalom astatine adjacent Hafjell.
With files from CBC Sports