Kriechmayr missed more than 3 seconds in Lauberhorn training on Odermatt

After the Swiss won the giant slalom in Adelboden for the third time in a row at the weekend, he was 0.05 seconds ahead of the American Jared Goldberg and well ahead of the Austrians on the longest descent of the winter.

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The fastest of eight Austrians who competed was Stefan Babinsky, with start number 35, in eleventh place. The gap between the sixth place in the first Val Gardena downhill run and the Bormio Super-G was 2.22 seconds. Vincent Kriechmayr, who is known to be reserved in training runs, took 18th place (+ 3.03), Otmar Striedinger (+3.25) came 23rd immediately ahead of Daniel Danklmaier (+3.43). Daniel Hemetsberger (+4.32) only came 28th. Since only eight ÖSV downhill skiers are competing – Christopher Neumayer is unavailable due to illness – there is no internal red-white-red qualification.

Johannes Strolz (+6.11), Christoph Krenn (+6.91) and Raphael Haaser (+7.23) took places 43, 48 and 50. It is unclear whether Strolz will ski both runs. Odermatt, of course, is still chasing his first downhill World Cup victory, but already has eight two places – including in the last two years in Wengen, when he had to admit defeat to the Norwegian Aleksandar Aamodt Kilde. The world champion in this discipline has had two third places in the three downhill runs so far this season before coming second again in Bormio.

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Even though the original start took place on Tuesday, the Thursday downhill run will be held on a shortened route, as in the past two years. Training should take place specifically on Wednesday (12.30 p.m.). A Super-G is scheduled for Friday, and the Lauberhorn descent from the original start is scheduled for Saturday (all at 12.30). From Thursday it will be cold and sunny.