Odermatt sweeps to super-G victory
- Austrian world champion Vincent Kriechmayr was third 0.83sec behind Odermatt.
SAALBACH: Marco Odermatt continued his late-season surge with a dominant victory in the World Cup super-G in Saalbach, Austria, on Sunday.
The Swiss skier won in 1 minute, 23.59 seconds, 0.62sec ahead of surprising Frenchman Matthieu Bailet, who climbed onto his first World Cup podium.
Austrian world champion Vincent Kriechmayr was third 0.83sec behind Odermatt.
The victory was only Odermatt's second in the World Cup this season but extended a recent run of podium finishes in the super-G and giant slalom.
He gained 85 points on the leader in the overall standings, Alexis Pinturault. The French slalom specialist leads in the chase for the big globe with 1,050 points to Odermatt's 969. There are six races to go:one downhill, one super-G, two giant slaloms, two slaloms.
They will meet next week-end in Kranjska Gora (Slovenia) in a giant slalom and a slalom.
Odermatt also prevented Kriechmayr clinching the small globe for the super-G, closing to 83 points with one race left, in the season-ending meeting at Lenzerheide, Switzerland, Austrian Matthias Mayer, who was seventh on Sunday, and Swiss skier Mauro Caviezel who was only 36th, can no longer catch Kriechmayr.
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