Victory eluded Marco Odermatt during the super-G in Val Gardena. The Nidwalden was beaten by the Italian Mattia Casse, who won his first World Cup success at the age of 34, and by the American Jared Goldberg (second at 0”01).
First then second of the two downhill training sessions organized this week on the Saslong piste, Mattia Casse managed an almost perfect round on Friday under light snowfall. He was almost half a second ahead of the eternal Swiss favorite, who had won in the first super-G of the winter at Beaver Creek but has never won in Val Gardena, and appears at this stage of the season less untouchable than last year. He is only in second place in the general classification behind the Norwegian Henrik Kristoffersen after nine of the 38 races. He will have the opportunity to make up for it tomorrow, downhill, still in the Italian resort.
Three third places for Mattia Casse
The third thirty-year-old to achieve a first success at this level this winter after Bagnard Justin Murisier and Grison Thomas Tumler, Casse has so far had three podiums on his list: three third places, including one obtained in Val Gardena in downhill in 2022 and one in super-G (in January 2023 in Cortina).
Starting with bib 26, Jared Goldberg took advantage of a faster track to score an unexpected first podium. The American, 33, had never done better than fourth place – in the downhill in Kitzbühel in 2023 – and had finished in the top ten of a super-G only once (tenth in Val Gardena last year). last).
Behind Marco Odermatt, who is still looking for a first victory in Val Gardena, only one other Swiss took a place in the top 10: Grison’s Stefan Rogentin, fifth at 0”57. Justin Murisier finished in 14th place (at 1”29) while Fribourg’s Alexis Monney finished sixteenth at 1”40.
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