Marco Odermatt is on his way to his 48th World Cup victory. The man from Nidwalden leads the first downhill of the season in Beaver Creek ahead of Ryan Cochran-Siegle and Adrian Sejersted.
04.12.2025, 20:08
04.12.2025, 20:29
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Odermatt took 30 and 69 hundredths from the American and the Norwegian respectively. The best downhill skier of the past two years made the difference on the course, which was shortened by around ten seconds, in the technically demanding steep slope, where no one even came close to his time.
While Odermatt is likely to take his 91st podium place in the World Cup, it would only be Cochran-Siegle's fourth and his first outside of Italy. Sejersted has stood on the World Cup podium twice so far, but never in the downhill.
With World Champion Franjo von Allmen (4th), Stefan Rogentin (8th) and Alexis Monney (9th), there are three other Swiss racers in the top 10, with von Allmen just 16 hundredths off 3rd place.
Niels Hintermann made his comeback after recovering from cancer. The man from Zurich, who missed the entire last World Championship winter, took no risks, losing 1.79 seconds to Odermatt and is ranked directly ahead of last year's winner Justin Murisier, who was unable to repeat his hussar ride from 2024.
The downhill was originally scheduled for Friday, but was brought forward by one day due to the weather forecast. As the resort in the US state of Colorado had experienced unusually high temperatures in recent weeks and it was not possible to create a sufficiently thick base in the lowest part of the course, the race ended at the height of the Harrier jump for safety reasons.
