Odermatt wins World Cup super-G in Aspen to secure 1st title in discipline | CBC Sports

Marco Odermatt of Switzerland wrapped up another World Cup super-G title by winning the race in Aspen, Colo., on Sunday with a smooth run through a challenging course.

Odermatt has been dominant all season in the super-G, taking five of the seven World Cup races. He also finished on the podium in the two other races.

The 25-year-old Odermatt cruised through the hill in a time of 1 minute, 6.80 seconds to hold off Andreas Sander of Germany by 0.05 seconds. Aleksander Aamodt Kilde of Norway finished third a day after earning his second straight World Cup downhill title.

Vancouver’s Riley Seger was the best-ranked Canadian in tenth place. Toronto’s Jack Crawford, who earned a silver medal in the World Cup downhill on Saturday, came right behind, finishing in a two-way tie for 11th.

Calgary’s Jeff Read and Broderick Thompson, of Whistler, B.C., were 21st and 31st, respectively, while North Vancouver’s Kyle Alexander did not finish. 

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After the race, Kilde went over to the leader’s box to congratulate Odermatt on his accomplishment. Odermatt also moved a step closer to securing his second straight overall World Cup title.

The sixth skier to take the course, Odermatt made it look easy as he breezed through the tricky course set. He became the first ski racer to capture at least five World Cup super-G events in the same season.

“It was a perfect super-G season from the first race until now,” Odermatt said in a postrace interview.

Odermatt became the only skier to win five super-Gs in a single men’s season, with one still to go.

“I didn’t know it would be a record so that’s really nice,” Odermatt said. “Five victories in one season is pretty cool and securing the globe before the final is even better.”

The amiable 25-year-old with a fluid skiing style said that his approach going into the race was to simply relish the opportunity.

Sander wound up on a World Cup podium for the first time in his career. He took second in a downhill race at the 2021 world championships.

The demanding course led to 16 racers recording a “DNF” — did not finish. But there were also quite a few racers who made charges up the leaderboard from late starting positions.

Nico Gauer of Liechtenstein started 53rd and moved all the way into sixth place. He finished just 0.65 seconds behind Odermatt’s winning time.

It was a difficult weekend in Aspen for Adrian Smiseth Sejersted of Norway. He was in line for his first World Cup win in the downhill before it was cancelled Friday due to deteriorating weather after 24 racers competed. The race needed to get through 30 competitors to become official.

Sejersted didn’t finish the second downhill Saturday or Sunday’s super-G.

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