The world downhill champion, Erik Guay of Canada, trailed Paris by 0.13 in second place. Paris came down the approximately two-mile Streif course in 1:57.56 to become the only Italian winner of the race besides Kristian Ghedina, who won in 1998. ITALIAN WINS DOWNHILL Dominik Paris became the second Italian skier to win the classic men’s World Cup downhill in Kitzbühel, Austria. Despite the cheers of the fans urging her on, Maze could not make up the time.

The first downhill training in Courchevel, some 900 kilometres away from Kranjska Gora, is scheduled for Monday morning at 10 a.m.Maze, 29, was expected to clinch the giant slalom title in front of a passionate home crowd and was 0.48 of a second ahead of Vonn after the first run.īut she ran wide at the start of the second, leaving her behind Vonn at the first checkpoint. Kilde skipped the two races in Slovenia this weekend and opted to prepare for Wednesday's downhill race in France, where he can win the discipline title. Now I am looking forward to three nice races,' said Odermatt, who is set to become the first overall champion from Switzerland since Carlo Janka won the title in 2010. 'I hoped for this, that was the plan for this weekend. While he picked up just 39 points in total from three events, Kilde racked up 225.īut adding 140 points for placing second and third, respectively, in two giant slaloms this weekend and locking up the GS discipline title gave Odermatt a relaxed feeling ahead of the season-ending week. But after Kvitfjell, I became a little bit nervous,' said Odermatt, referring to speed races in Norway last week. However, both would be eligible to start in the slalom next Sunday, the final race of the season.Įven Odermatt is starting to believe that the big Crystal Globe, widely regarded the sport's most important prize, will be his for the first time. That leaves just three events at the finals where they were expected to score points - downhill, super-G, and GS. Neither Odermatt nor Kilde has ever raced in a World Cup slalom. 'Even when Kilde wins three times, I don't believe he will also score points in the slalom,' Odermatt told Swiss broadcaster SRF. It leaves the Norwegian with only a mathematical chance to win the Crystal Globe as overall season winner, with just one race in each of the four disciplines remaining at the World Cup Finals in Courchevel next week. Odermatt increased his lead in the overall standings to 329 points from Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, the 2019-20 overall champion. Odermatt, who had already locked up the discipline title by finishing second in Saturday's race, was fastest in the opening run but dropped to third in 2:18.40.Ĭalgary's Erik Read took top Canadian honours over Toronto's Trevor Philp, finishing 17th in 2:20.54 while the latter slipped to 20th (2:20.67) after placing 13th on Saturday.

Duration 1:25 Henrik Kristoffersen of Norway took first at the men's giant slalom World Cup event in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia.Īustria's Stefan Brennsteiner (2:18.36) finished 0.23 seconds behind for a career-best second.

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