Franjo von Allmen celebrates his first World Cup victory

Le podium

Bernese Oberlander Franjo von Allmen wins his first World Cup race with the Super-G. The Austrian Vincent Kriechmayr comes second, 10 hundredths behind him, and the Swiss Stefan Rogentin completes the podium.

Racing scene

How is von Allmen, 23? Second in the Val Gardena descent, second in the Bormio descent. And now this feat at home, more or less on the doorstep: it’s the first World Cup triumph for a Bernese Oberlander in 22 years. At the time, Bruno Kernen won the legendary Lauberhorn downhill. Today is also the 20th consecutive Super-G where a Swiss has reached the podium.

This is how the other Swiss behaved

Rogentin crashed on Tuesday during the first downhill training, but he still started today – even though everything still hurt on Thursday, as he himself said. He nevertheless came third, what an exceptional performance! So the home crowd was able to recover from the fact that things were not going well for Marco Odermatt and he only finished seventh.

The slope whispers

The Lauberhorn Super-G has only been officially part of the World Cup program since 2022. Since then, Odermatt has never missed the podium! The record is exceptional: victory in 2022, third in 2023, second in 2024. If we add the downhill, the result is the following: in nine races since 2022, the Nidwalden has only missed the podium twice. In the 2022 downhill he finished fourth. Now he can’t get on the podium anymore – he’ll be able to get over it.

This is how it happens

The legendary descent on the Lauberhorn is on the program on Saturday and the slalom on Sunday closes the Wengen race weekend – we can follow both races live.