Marco Odermatt is on the verge of the coveted gold medal in the World Championship Super-G in Saalbach. The man from Nidwalden outclassed the competition by a second or more.
07.02.2025, 12:40
07.02.2025, 12:42
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Odermatt had no problems at all with the long and demanding super-G and set a time with a perfect run that none of his competitors could even come close to. The Austrian Raphael Haaser in second place lost exactly one second to the unleashed Nidwalden native. Adrian Sejersted is in bronze place. The Norwegian opened the race with the unpopular starting number 1 in the super-G.
It was a close race behind Odermatt. There were only 16 hundredths between Sejersted and Dominik Paris in 7th place. Vincent Kriechmayr, 2021 World Champion and still slightly ailing after his crash in Wengen, missed out on bronze by 5 hundredths.
Alexis Monney missed out on a possible medal. The 25-year-old from Fribourg dropped out halfway through the race after a mistake on the inside. At the third intermediate time, Monney was just ahead of Sejersted and therefore on course for the podium.
The other Swiss skiers, who have also finished on the podium this season, were unable to reach their potential and clearly missed out on the medals. Stefan Rogentin, who won the super-G at the season finale in Saalbach last year, was 53 hundredths behind third place, while Franjo von Allmen missed out on bronze by nine tenths after a mistake in the upper section of the course.
For Switzerland, Odermatt's medal ends a long dry spell in the super-G. Since Didier Cuche's World Championship title in Val d'Isère in 2009, Swiss-Ski has come away empty-handed at seven World Championships. Most recently, Odermatt missed out on bronze in Courchevel by just eleven hundredths.
