Italian Giovanni Franzoni is the winner of the downhill that the skiers rode for the World Cup in Kitzbühel on Saturday, while the Swiss Marco Odermatt took second place.
Franzoni celebrated his second World Cup victory on the fast track Streif with a time of 1:52.31 minutes, after winning the super-G in Wengen last week. The leader in the overall standings, the Swiss Odermatt, was seven hundredths of a second behind him (1:52.38) and thus missed his first downhill victory in Kitzbühel and his 54th in the World Cup. Third, with a slower time of 39 hundredths, was the Frenchman Maxence Muzaton which started as 29.
With this victory, the Italian, who won a record winner’s prize of 101,000 euros (gross), also ended the Swiss dominance in the downhill after čfour wins in the first čfour races of the season.
In the downhill ranking, Odermatt is first with 460 points, Franjo Von Allmen is second, who finished 15th today, with 298 points, and Franzoni is third with 216 points. Odermatt increased his lead in the overall standings, he has 1285 points, while the second Norwegian who plays for Brazil, Liucas Barathen Pinheiro, has 618. The third is Norwegian Atle Lie McGrath with 578 points.