The 23-year-old from Berne leads the Austrian Vincent Kriechmayr by a tenth of a second. Third is also Swiss. Marco Odermatt has to cope with disappointment.
Franjo von Allmen races to his first World Cup victory in Wengen.
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(sda) The Swiss speed riders also performed well in the Super-G in Wengen. Franjo von Allmen is on the way to his first World Cup victory, Stefan Rogentin is in third place in the intermediate rankings.
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Von Allmen has already been close to the premiere twice this winter. In the last two downhill runs he finished second behind his teammates; in Val Gardena behind Marco Odermatt, in Bormio behind Alexis Monney. In the Super-G, Von Allmen previously made it into the top three; Almost a year ago in Garmisch he finished third.
-Von Allmen was closest in time to Vincent Kriechmayr. The Austrian missed the first win of the season for a Ski Austria athlete by a tenth of a second. Rogentin continued his improvement in results in the Super-G this winter. In his previous record he had ranks 26 in Beaver Creek, 5 in Val Gardena and 4 in Bormio.
That Rogentin would do this could not necessarily be expected given his history. The Graubünden man fell in the first training session for Saturday’s downhill run, took a break the next day and was still feeling the after-effects of pain in his back and ankles even in the Super-G.
Rogentin had already been to an award ceremony in Wengen after a Super-G. Two years ago he took second place. He has been at the top of the World Cup once so far. Last March at the final in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, he won the Super-G ahead of his teammates Loïc Meillard and Arnaud Boisset.
Things didn’t go as expected in Marco Odermatt’s fourth Super-G of the winter. The Nidwaldner takes 7th place in the interim rankings. As the fourth Swiss in the top ten, Monney is in 9th place.
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