Odermatt beats Kilde for super-G win in World Cup rivalry

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Marco Odermatt first. Aleksander Aamodt Kilde second. Their 1-2 decorativeness successful Thursday's World Cup super-G could beryllium repeated astatine adjacent month's Beijing Olympics and connected the nonrecreational circuit for years to come.

Swiss prima takes down Norwegian successful Olympic preview, Canadian Crawford places 5th

Graham Dunbar · The Associated Press

· Posted: Jan 13, 2022 10:11 AM EST | Last Updated: January 13, 2022

Marco Odermatt first. Aleksander Aamodt Kilde second.

Their 1-2 decorativeness successful Thursday's World Cup super-G could beryllium repeated astatine adjacent month's Beijing Olympics and connected the nonrecreational circuit for years to come.

Odermatt, a 24-year-old emerging Swiss star, bushed his Norwegian rival by 0.23 seconds. Matthias Mayer, the 2018 Olympic champion successful super-G, was 0.58 down successful 3rd spot for his 3rd podium spot of the play successful a subject dominated by the 2 standouts.

Odermatt added this triumph to his super-G season-opening triumph successful Colorado. Kilde past won 3 straight, starting erstwhile Odermatt was runner-up successful Beaver Creek the adjacent day.

WATCH | Odermatt bests rival Kilde to assertion World Cup super-G title:

Switzerland's Marco Odermatt skis to different triumph successful location country

Five days aft becoming the archetypal Swiss skier to triumph the elephantine slalom contention successful Adelbobden successful 14 years, Marco Odermatt won the World Cup super-G successful Wengen, Switzerland.

"It's a chill combat we person together," Kilde said aft Odermatt ended his winning streak. "He's conscionable a great, unthinkable skier and besides a human. He's conscionable ever smiling and he's fair. I emotion that."

The respect was wide erstwhile Kilde came into the decorativeness area, saw helium had not matched Odermatt's clip and smiled portion pointing toward his rival successful the course-side leader's seat.

Odermatt returned the motion wearing a large grin with his sixth contention triumph of the World Cup play seeming much secure.

The 100 points extended Odermatt's large pb successful the wide World Cup standings implicit Kilde, the 2020 champion.

Kilde inactive leads the season-long super-G standings up of Odermatt. Mayer is successful 3rd spot successful some categories.

<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FISalpine?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FISalpine</a> WCup M standings ⛷️ 1⃣ Marco <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Odermatt?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Odermatt</a> 🇨🇭 945 2⃣ Aleksander Kilde 🇳🇴 549 3⃣ Matthias Mayer 🇦🇹 507 4⃣ Vincent Kriechmayr 🇦🇹 402 5⃣ Alexis Pinturault 🇫🇷 382<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/sci?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#sci</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ski?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ski</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/skiing?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#skiing</a> <a href="https://t.co/HQ9nIuF8rC">pic.twitter.com/HQ9nIuF8rC</a>

—@SportRisultati

Odermatt's triumph came successful his racing debut successful Wengen, a storied venue successful skiing past for Switzerland and the 55-year-old World Cup circuit.

Toronto autochthonal Jack Crawford had a beardown tally to decorativeness 5th, 0.77 seconds down Odermatt.

Canada had 4 different participants, with Brodie Seger finishing 17th, Broderick Thompson 31st, Jeffrey Read 41st, and Riley Seger 45th.

WATCH | Toronto's Jack Crawford finishes 5th astatine the World Cup super-G:

Toronto's Jack Crawford finishes 5th successful Wengen super-G

Toronto's Jack Crawford skied to a fifth-place decorativeness successful the men's World Cup super-G successful Wengen, Switzerland.

Perfect upwind and snowfall conditions delivered a apical velocity for Odermatt of astir 138 kph (86 mph). That is faster than racers scope connected immoderate downhills.

More sunshine and wide skies are forecast for downhill races connected Friday and Saturday.

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