Marco Odermatt wins the coveted World Championship gold medal in the super-G in Saalbach. The 27-year-old from Nidwalden thus closes another gap in his palmarès.
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.
Haaser and Sejersted in hundredths of a second luck
The Austrian Raphael Haaser in second place lost exactly one second to the unleashed Swiss. He won his second World Championship medal just one day after his sister Ricarda Haaser suffered a serious knee injury. Adrian Sejersted secured bronze. The Norwegian opened the race with the unpopular starting number 1 in the super-G and had the luck of a hundredth on his side.
Because it was a close race behind Odermatt. There were only 16 hundredths between Sejersted and Dominik Paris and Ryan Cochran-Siegle in joint 7th place. Vincent Kriechmayr, 2021 World Champion and still slightly ailing after his crash in Wengen, missed out on bronze by just 5 hundredths.
Monney out of luck
Alexis Monney missed out on a potential 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 (9th), who won the super-G at the season finale in Saalbach last year, was 53 hundredths off bronze, while Franjo von Allmen (12th) missed out by 0.9 seconds after a mistake in the upper section of the course.
Odermatt ends dry spell and closes the gap
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. Odermatt last missed out on bronze two years ago in Courchevel by just eleven hundredths.
With the World Championship title in the super-G, Odermatt closes another gap in his palmarès. At the last championships in Co
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The preview
The biggest Swiss trump cards
1st in the discipline rankings
Marco Odermatt
The big favorite for the world championship title. He has won two super-Gs this winter and finished on the podium once more. A world championship medal in the super-G is still missing from the Nidwalden native's impressive palmares.
Starting number 8 in today's super-G
3rd in the discipline ranking
Stefan Rogentin
Ranks 26, 5, 4, 3 and 3 speak for themselves. Stefan Rogentin has been on the rise in the super-G this season and took a podium place in Wengen and Kitzbühel. The man from Graubünden will also be a force to be reckoned with in Saalbach. Rogentin won the super-G at the main rehearsal in the World Cup final last year.
Starting number 12 in today's super-G
6th in the discipline ranking
Franjo von Allmen
He won the super-G in Wengen and also showed strong performances in Bormio (6th) and Kitzbühel (4th). With this ease and form, anything is possible for him.
Starting number 15 in today's super-G
8th in the discipline ranking
Alexis Monney
The fourth Swiss super-G podium racer this season. Thanks to his third place in Bormio, Monney got the World Championship starting place at the expense of Justin Murisier. The latter was more consistent, but without an absolute top result.
Starting number 4 in today's super-G
The international favorites
Vincent Kriechmayr is in second place in the discipline rankings thanks to two second places, but the Austrian was injured in Wengen and the big question is whether he will be really fit for his home World Championships. The young Norwegian Frederik Möller (4th, 4th, and 1st) has already set a few exclamation marks and the Italian Mattia Casse already has a victory to his name. Defending champion James Crawford from Canada is also not to be underestimated.
The results of the World Cup final in Saalbach 2024
There was a Swiss triple victory at the season finale last season. And no one on the podium was called Marco Odermatt, who rounded off a brilliant Swiss result with 5th place. Gino Caviezel in 8th place was only fifth best Swiss.
Meillard, who finished second in Saalbach 2024, and Arnaud Boisset, who came third in the World Championship main rehearsal, are both not in the line-up for this year's World Championship Super-G. The internal competition is simply too fierce.
🥇 Stefan Rogentin (SUI)
🥈 Loïc Meillard (SUI)
Arnaud Boisset (SUI)
5th Marco Odermatt (SUI)
8th Gino Caviezel (SUI)
