Next Friday, the 5th Alpine Ski World Cup Super-G of the 2024-2025 winter season will take place in Kitzbuehel.
Kitzbühel (AUT)
January 24th Super-G / Men 11:30 CET
Each of the first four Super-G races of the 2024-2025 winter season had a different winner. Ten skiers have taken the twelve podium places. Only Marco Odermatt and Vincent Kriechmayr have been on the podium twice this season.
Marco Odermatt won the first Super-G of the season at the Birds of Prey racecourse in Beaver Creek. He beat Cyprien Sarrazin by 0.18 seconds. With starting number 24, 23-year-old Lukas Feurstein secured third place, finishing +0.47 seconds behind the leader.
Italian Mattia Casse confirmed that he is one of the fastest skiers in the world right now by winning the Super-G on the Saslong in Val Gardena. He took his first victory in the Alpine Ski World Cup at age 34 in his 201 Alpine Ski World Cup race.
US skier Jared Goldberg finished second, just 0.01 seconds behind Casse, to claim his first Alpine World Cup podium in 168 races at the age of 33.
Marco Odermatt finished in third place 0.43 seconds behind Casse.
The last Men's race of the Alpine Ski World Cup in 2024 brought another first-time winner. 24-year-old Norwegian Fredrik Moeller confirmed that he is one of the skiers to watch by winning the Super-G in Bormio. After finishing in fourth place in the first two Super-G races of the season in Beaver Creek and Val Gardena, he celebrated his first victory and first podium in his eighth Super-G and 26th World Cup race.
Vincent Kriechmayr finished in second place 0.20 seconds behind the Norwegian and made it onto the podium for the first time in the season.
Switzerland's Alexis Monney confirmed his surprise victory in Bormio's Downhill by finishing third, just 0.24 seconds behind the winner.
The Super-G in Wengen brought another first-time winner. The 23-year-old Swiss skier Franjo Von Allmen proved he is one of the rising stars in the Alpine Ski World Cup. After finishing second in the Downhill in Bormio y Val Gardena this season and third in the Super-G in Garmisch Partenkirchen last season, he put in a clean strong performance to beat Vincent Kriechmayr by just 0.10 seconds. Teammate Stefan Rogentin finished in third place 0.58 seconds behind.
Marco Odermatt is the third man to win at least 13 World Cup Super-G World Cup races, after Hermann Maier (24), Aksel Lund Svindal (17), and Kjetil Jansrud (13).
Last season, Odermatt became the first male skier to win the Super-G Crystal Globe in successive seasons since Kjetil Jansrud won it in 2016-2017 and 2017-2018. The only Swiss man to have topped the Super-G World Cup standings more than once was Pirmin Zurbriggen who has won it four times.
Defending World Cup Champion and current Super-G standings leader Marco Odermatt finished in Wengen outside of the Top-5 in a World Cup Super-G race for the first time since March 2022.
Since March 2022, in 20 Super-G races, he has won nine and claimed an additional seven podium spots.
In 2021, in the last Super-G held in Kitzbuehel, he finished in second place behind Vincent Kriechmayr.
Fredrik Moeller currently sits third in the Super-G standings, two points behind the absent Vincent Kriechmayr.
The 24-year-old Norwegian skier won the Super-G held in Bormio and was 4th in both the first two Super-G races this season in Beaver Creek and Val Gardena. He started the 2024-2025 season with a 21st place as his best World Cup result recorded in December 2023 in Val Gardena.
At the age of 34 Mattia Casse is enjoying his best Super-G World Cup season, sitting fourth in the standings. Casse recorded his first World Cup triumph by winning the Val Gardena Super-G in December 2024.
Stefan Rogentin finished in third place in the last Super-G held last weekend in Wengen. He is in 5th place in the Super-G standings.
Rogentin won the last Super-G of the 2023-2024 season in Saalbach. Teammates Loic Meillard and Arnaud Boisset rounded up the podium in second and third place respectively. The Swiss triple podium is the third in Super-G history. The two previous Swiss 1-2-3 podiums in the Super-G occurred in 1982 in Val d'Isère when Peter Müller finished ahead of Peter Lüscher and Pirmin Zurbriggen, and in 1992 in Megève when Paul Accola won in front of Martin Hangl and Franz Heinzer.
It's Rogentin's first win in his 100th Alpine Ski World Cup start. He finished fourth in the Super-G standings last season.
Dominik Paris is the last Italian to have won a Super-G World race, in Soldeu in March 2019. In the absence of the injured Vincent Kriechmayr, Paris is the only former Kitzbuehel Super-G winner on the field. He finished in third place in the Super-G held in Kitzbuehel in 2019.
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