Odermatt wins super-G title as bad weather cancels Courchevel / Photo: Olivier CHASSIGNOLE - AFP
Odermatt wins super-G title as bad weather cancels Courchevel
The penultimate super-G race of the World Cup season was called off at Courchevel on Sunday leaving Swiss racer Marco Odermatt as winner of the individual event in the season standings.
Heavy snowfall and fog forced the cancellation at Courchevel for the second day running, and with just Lillehammer remaining in two weeks Odermatt's 425 points leave him 158 ahead of Vincent Kriechmayer with only 100 left to race for.
Odermatt sealed his fifth successive overall World Cup title here on Friday with a third-placed finish in the downhill.
He is just the third person in alpine ski history to win five overall titles in a row, after Austrians Marcel Hirscher (eight times between 2012-19) and Annemarie Moser-Proll (five times between 1971-75).
The 28-year-old, who won two Olympic silvers and bronze in Bormio, also claimed the World Cup downhill title with his third-placed finish in the French resort.
L.Bonetti--GdR
