The Norwegian Fredrik Moeller won the super-G in Bormio (Italy) on Sunday, signing his first victory in the Alpine Ski World Cup at the age of 24.
Moeller, fourth in the first two super-Gs of the season, in Beaver Creek (United States) and Val Gardena (Italy), beat the Austrian Vincent Kriechmayr, 2nd at 20/100, and the Swiss Alexis Monney, 3rd at 24/100.
Winner of the event in 2022 and 2023, the Swiss Marco Odermatt, world No.1 and winner of the last three editions of the World Cup, confirmed that he was not having a good week with a disappointing 5th place. for him, 45/100 from Moeller.
The Norwegian, who made his World Cup debut a year ago, imitated Alexis Monney who, the day before, had given himself, also at 24, his first success on the world circuit by winning the Bormio downhill.
Their successes are all the more resounding as they won them on the Stelvio, one of the most difficult and feared tracks on the circuit, criticized by many again this year for the lack of homogeneity of its surface.
Bormio, where the men's alpine skiing events for the 2026 Olympics will take place in thirteen months, will leave its mark, notably with the heavy fall in training of Frenchman Cyprien Sarrazin on Friday, victim of an intracranial hematoma.
Starting with bib N.1 on Sunday, the Swiss Gino Caviezel injured his leg while climbing through a gate and was evacuated by helicopter after a long interruption.
In the absence of Sarrazin, 2nd in the Beaver Creek super-G, the French team, mentally tested by the hospitalization of its leader and physically by a virus, still places two representatives in the provisional top 10.
Nils Allègre is 8th after the passage of the first thirty competitors, just ahead of Florian Loriot (9th), while Alexis Pinturault, ill, has given up on starting this super-G.
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