Defending Super-G World Cup Champion Marco Odermatt is the Man everyone aims to beat. 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.
The skier from Nidwalden finished on the podium in five of the seven Super-G events last season including two victories in Bormio, and Garmisch Partenkirchen. He has won eight of 15 races in the past two seasons and never finished worse than fifth.
The 27-year-old Swiss Ace was the fourth man to win at least 12 World Cup Super-G World Cup races, after Hermann Maier (24), Aksel Lund Svindal (17), and Kjetil Jansrud (13).
Marco Odermatt won the Overall, Downhill, Super-G, and Giant Slalom Globes. The last man to win at least four World Cup Crystal Globes in a single season was Hermann Maier in 1999-2000 and 2001-2001 (Overall, Downhill, Giant Slalom, and Super-G in both seasons).
Marco Odermatt claimed victory in the Super-G Alpine Ski World Cup events held in Beaver Creek in both 2019 and 2021.
Vincent Kriechmayr won the Super-G Crystal Globe in 2021. Last season, Kriechmayr finished in second place in the Super-G standings. With 1 win, 4 second places, and 2 third places he became the third man to finish in the top three of the Super-G World Cup standings in at least seven seasons, after Aksel Lund Svindal (eight, including five wins) and Hermann Maier (seven, including five wins).
Hermann Maier (5) and Stephan Eberharter (2) are the only Austrian men to have won the Super-G Crystal Globe at least twice.
The 33-year-old Austrian recorded nine of his 18 World Cup wins in Super-G. He can become the second Austrian man to win at least 10 Super-G World Cup races, after Hermann Maier (24).
Raphael Haaser finished in third place in the Super-G standings last season. With three seconds places in the Super-G in Bormio (2021 and 2023) and Garmisch-Partenkirchen (2024), the 27-year-old skier from Austria will seek his first Alpine Ski World Cup victory this season.
Stefan Rogentin Wins the last Super-G of the season in a sunny 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.
Cyprien Sarrazin and Nils Allègre can join Luc Alphand (2) and Franck Piccard (2) as the Frenchmen on multiple World Cup Super-G wins.
In Wengen, Sarrazin celebrated his first victory in Super-G in his 13th participation in a World Cup race in this speed discipline.
Nils Allegre won the first Super-G held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen last season, beating Italian Guglielmo Bosca by 0.18 seconds. Bosca also achieved his first podium in the Alpine Ski World Cup in Garmisch. Before the race, 31-year-old Bosca had earned only four World Cup Top-10 finishes, including a fifth place in Wengen in the Super-G last season as his best result.
Dominik Paris is the last Italian to have won a Super-G World race, in Soldeu in March 2019.
James Crawford is the current world champion in the Men’s Super-G, but he has not yet won a World Cup event. His only podium finish in a World Cup Super-G event was a second place in Kvitfjell on March 6, 2022. He has the opportunity to be the first Canadian to win a Men's Super-G World Cup since Dustin Cook did so in Méribel in March 2015.
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