Canada's Jack Crawford wins silver in World Cup super-G at Kvitfjell in Norway

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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

The Associated Press

· Posted: Mar 09, 2025 8:21 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hr ago

A antheral  alpine skier smiles portion    raising his poles and skis into the aerial  successful  solemnisation  connected  a podium.

Canada's Jack Crawford celebrates aft placing 2nd successful Sunday's World Cup super-G contention successful Kvitfjell, Norway. (Marco Trovati/The Associated Press)

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.

WATCH l Crawford finishes 2nd in Kvitfjell super-G:

Toronto's Jack Crawford places 2nd successful World Cup super-G from Kvitfjell

The Canadian was the runner-up down victor Dominik Paris, earning metallic with a clip of 1:09.36 successful the men's super-G contention astatine the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup halt astatine the Kvitfjell skis edifice successful Norway.

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.

WATCH l Paris prevails in super-G:

Italy's Dominik Paris captures World Cup super-G golden astatine Kvitfjell

The 35-year-old Olympian earned his archetypal triumph successful the men's super-G this play with a clip of 1:08.98 during the latest halt of the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup halt astatine the Kvitfjell skis edifice successful Norway.

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

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