Premiere for Marco Odermatt – The Swiss won a World Cup race for the first time. The race was overshadowed by heavy falls again.
He has fulfilled his childhood dream: Marco Odermatt gets victory in the Super-G (1: 13.25m) during the World Cup race on the infamous streak. Odermatt is the Olympic champion, world champion, three-time overall World Cup winner and winner of 43 World Cup races.
And yet this victory in Kitzbühel means so much for the 27-year-old. In advance, he described a triumph on the streak as the “last big goal”. And so he showed himself during the race: the Swiss consisted consistently, kept the line despite extremely high pace and drove to the finish with a clear lead.
Raphael Haaser lets you open
Raphael Haaser caused a surprise. The Austrian came to the finish line with only eleven hundredths to Odermatt (+0.11s). The 27-year-old local hero had the audience cheered in Kitzbühel completely unexpectedly.
Third finished Stefan Rogentin. The Swiss was even close to Odermatt’s time in between, was well in the line and finished behind his Swiss teammate with a distance of +0.30s.
Heavy fall of Pinturault
The races on the streak were overshadowed by several heavy falls again, the race was often interrupted.
Alexis Pinturault crashed at the point where Lukas Feuerstein had previously stumbled. The Frenchman twisted his knee and had to be removed with a helicopter.
Helicopter in continuous use
Pinturault’s fall was the hardest, but by no means the only one. Florian Loriot also plunged on the S-curve after the Seidlalmsprung, which was also doomed by Pinturault and Feuerstein and was unable to leave the slopes out of the air without help. Otmar Striedinger also fell down, but was largely unharmed.
On Saturday there will be a speed race again on the streak. Super-G winner Odermatt is again part of the favorite group. The Austrian Vincent Kriechmayer, who waived the Super-G for an injury, will then start.