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Great performance by Swiss alpine skiers in Bormio: Alexis Monney won ahead of his compatriot Franjo Von Allmen and the Canadian Cameron Alexander. Marco Odermatt managed to avoid a crash at the last minute and finished fifth. Justin Murisier and Marco Kohler also appear in the top 10.
Alexis Money wins her first World Cup victory. He won the Bormio downhill ahead of his teammate Franjo Von Allmen. This is the third Swiss double victory in the third downhill of the season. This is a first for Argenty. He has never finished higher than 8th place, which he achieved during the Kitzbühel downhill in January.
In Bormio, Monney surprised the competition with bib 19 and a lively race. Not really among the fastest at the top, he increased the pressure as the race progressed. In the second part of the course, no one could match Monney’s time. At the finish, he was 24 hundredths behind Von Allmen, who had been in the lead until then and was hoping to achieve the first World Cup victory of his career.
Silver: “A strange feeling”
“It’s a strange feeling, but it’s cool,” enthuses the French-speaking Swiss in an interview with SRF after the race. “Amazing! It was almost too easy today, normally it’s a lot harder here,” Monney continued. “I thought after training that a good result was possible. But it’s not so good right away.
The whole thing is even better, he says, because in the end it is even a double victory. Silver: “Wonderful. Franjo is a great guy, he was really happy for me. It’s really nice.
For Von Allmen, this is the third podium of his career, the second in downhill and the second in a week. Shortly before Christmas, he celebrated his first podium in the top discipline in Val Gardena/Gröden in second place.
Scary moment for Odermatt
One day after the terrible fall of Cyprien Sarrazin, Marco Odermatt experienced a moment of shock. The leader of the downhill rankings snowed in the middle section, but managed to escape thanks to a lot of skill and luck. The skier from Nidwalden crossed the finish line with a deployed airbag and still almost reached the podium in fifth place. In the end, he is only eight hundredths behind the Canadian Cameron Alexander.
Only a hundredth behind Odermatt, another Swiss, Justin Murisier, finished in 6th place. The winner of the downhill at Beaver Creek missed a possible podium at the lowest part of the course. Marco Kohler (9th) and Stefan Rogentin (12th) completed the solid Swiss result with six riders in the top eleven.
