Ski Olympic champion Marco Odermatt successfully defended his title in the overall World Cup. The Swiss benefits from the fact that competitor Aleksander Aamodt Kilde sits out in Kranjska Gora at the weekend.
Marco Odermatt is the overall World Cup winner for the second time in a row – earlier than expected and without having to compete in another race. Because Odermatt’s last remaining competitor, the Norwegian Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, is giving up the upcoming World Cup weekend in Kranjska Gora, the 25-year-old can no longer take the overall victory away from him.
Odermatt’s lead over Kilde is currently 386 points. After the two giant slaloms in Slovenia, there are still four more races to come at the season finale in Soldeu/Andorra, of which Kilde will contest no more than three. In downhill, super-G and giant slalom, the overall winner of 2020 can make up a maximum of 300 points. Like Odermatt, he does not contest the final slalom.
In the footsteps of the great Pirmin Zurbriggen
Odermatt is the only Swiss besides the legendary Pirmin Zurbriggen who has won the big crystal ball more than once. Zurbriggen (60) even managed to do this four times (1984, 1987, 1988, 1990).
“Odi” recently secured gold in the downhill and giant slalom at the World Championships in France, and last winter he also won the giant slalom at the Olympics in Beijing.