The Swiss are also among the front runners in the first training session for Saturday's World Championship downhill. Stefan Rogentin, Marco Odermatt and Alexis Monney are ranked 4th, 5th and 7th.
05.02.2025, 13:47
05.02.2025, 13:49
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The ranking list after the first downhill training session is of limited significance. It was no different on Wednesday. Most of the racers saw the practice run as an opportunity to get to grips with the task in hand. Further training sessions are planned for Thursday and Saturday.
The starting position for Vincent Kriechmayr was somewhat different. The Austrian used the run as a further stress test for his right knee, in which he had suffered a pulled inner ligament in his crash two and a half weeks earlier in the downhill in Wengen.
Kriechmayr was already considering a return six days after the mishap on the Lauberhorn in the Super-G in Kitzbühel, but abandoned his intention. Kriechmayr's first training run on the Schneekristall piste was enough for second place behind Ryan Cochran-Siegle. The American was 65 hundredths faster.
It came as no surprise that Rogentin was the best-placed of the Swiss skiers who have performed so well this World Cup winter. In the second training session on Thursday, the man from Graubünden will have to compete in an internal team elimination for the fifth and final starting place in Sunday's race. Other contenders are Marco Kohler and Lars Rösti. Kohler finished 13th on Wednesday, Rösti 32nd. The Swiss are allowed to compete with five athletes because they have the reigning world champion, Odermatt, who is not part of the normal contingent.
Like Rogentin, Odermatt and Monney lost just over a second on Cochran-Siegle's best time. Franjo von Allmen and Justin Murisier, the other Swiss riders guaranteed a start on Sunday, followed in 11th and 36th place respectively.
