After sweeping the podium in the Downhill on Saturday, the Swiss ski team is celebrating a double victory in the Super-G with Marco Odermatt and Alexis Monney.
Marco Odermatt claimed victory in Sunday's Super-G at Crans Montana, becoming the third man to secure 15 wins in Alpine Ski World Cup Super-G events. The only others to achieve this are Hermann Maier with 24 wins and Aksel Lund Svindal with 17. Odermatt has placed in the Top seven in his past 22 World Cup Super-G races since March 2022, reaching the podium 18 times and securing 11 victories.
With today's victory and just two races remaining on the calendar in Kvitfjell and Sun Valley, Marco Odermatt is closer to his third discipline Crystal Globe. He is leading the Super-G standings with 440 points. Mattia Casse is second with 260 points.
Odermatt won the Super-G title in two consecutive seasons: 2022-2023, and 2023-2024. Pirmin Zurbriggen is the sole Swiss man to have led the Super-G World Cup standings more than three times, having won it four times. Hermann Maier in 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2003, and Aksel Lund Svindal in 2006, 2009, 2012, 2013, and 2014 won the Super-G Crystal Globe five times.
This season, he has celebrated victories at Beaver Creek, Kitzbühel, and now Crans Montana, along with a third-place finish in Val Gardena. He came in fifth at Bormio and finished seventh in Wengen, which was his lowest placement of the season.
Odermatt, who already has 26 World Cup wins in Giant Slalom, became the fifth man to win 15+ Alpine Ski World Cup races in two disciplines, after Ingemar Stenmark (46 GS, 40 SL), Alberto Tomba (35 SL, 15 GS), Hermann Maier (24 SG, 15 DH), and Marcel Hirscher (32 SL, 31 GS). He becomes the first man or woman to achieve this feat with a Super-G / Giant Slalom combination. Maier narrowly missed out, achieving 14 victories in Giant Slalom.
"When I'm at the start, I want to win every race - regardless of whether I became world champion the week before. The goal is to give everything I have to get there. If that works out, it's cool," Odermatt said.
"I had a perfect run from the middle to the bottom. We were very lucky today with the light around my starting position so this helped me to see the track a little bit better and really push. It's crazy, we (the Swiss Team) are living in a dream. It's not stopping and I hope we can continue like this," he added.
Teammate Alexis Monney secured second place, trailing Odermatt by 0.28 seconds, and claimed his fifth World Cup podium.
"It's unbelievable. Today I focused on my race and wanted to ski well. It's really nice. I'm in good shape at the moment. I can't find the words right now, it's so nice and fun. I've been skiing well all season," Monney said.
Dominik Paris took third place, finishing 0.39 seconds behind the leader. This marked his first podium of the season and the 16th time he has reached the podium in Super-G at the Alpine Ski World Cup.
"I'm a bit surprised about my run and about the result. It didn't feel that good, but in the end, a very good day," Paris said.
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