Ski racer Romed Baumann ensured the next German top 10 result in the World Cup on the second descent of the season.
The 36-year-old, World Cup runner-up in 2021 in Super-G, took sixth place in Beaver Creek/Colorado when Norwegian Aleksander Aamodt Kilde won again and, like Thomas Dreßen before him, fulfilled the World Cup norm.
It was “really cool”, said Baumann, “in terms of the conditions it was a difficult race. The podium would have been possible, but I’m still happy. I left a lot of good people behind me.” For the Super-G on Sunday (6:00 p.m. CET) at the same place, the motto is “attack, attack”.
Dreßen had to settle for 24th place (1.99 seconds back) after his strong comeback in Lake Louise/Canada. The five-time World Cup winner from Mittenwald finished eighth at the start after not having started in a World Cup since March 2020 due to hip and knee surgery.
Dominik Schwaiger was 13th in the Vail Valley on Saturday and thus fulfilled the second part of the World Championship norm. Josef Ferstl secured half the norm for the season highlight as 14th. Andreas Sander, last fifth in the Super-G, came in 19th.
Behind Kilde, Swiss Marco Odermatt was narrowly beaten (+0.06 seconds), third was James Crawford from Canada (+0.79).