Vincent Kriechmayr achieved his first podium finish of this Ski World Cup winter in the Super-G in Bormio. The 2021 double world champion only had to admit defeat to surprise winner Fredrik Moeller in the last Alpine men’s race this year on Sunday. Kriechmayr was two tenths of a second slower than the Norwegian. The Swiss Alexis Monney, the downhill winner from the previous day, came third with +0.24 seconds.
Kriechmayr had a good, but not outstanding, run. It was only in the last section to the finish that he left too much time on Moeller, who was also not error-free. “It was a solid trip, partly okay, but partly still with little self-confidence, often still employed,” said the Upper Austrian in the ORF interview. “But overall it was one of my better performances, even if I didn’t quite pull it off the way I wanted.”
Moeller had previously only had two top-five results in the World Cup on his CV. This season, the 24-year-old finished fourth in Beaver Creek and Val Gardena. Since top star Aleksander Aamodt Kilde continues to suffer from the consequences of his Wengen crash in January 2024 this season, Moeller is the only Norwegian in the speed disciplines alongside Adrian Smiseth Sejersted. “The Norwegians always bring a boy – huge,” commented Kriechmayr.
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Image: GEPA pictures/Matic Klansek (GEPA pictures)
Source: Nachrichten
