Marco Odermatt celebrates historical Super-G win in Beaver Creek!

Marco Odermatt celebrates historical Super-G win in Beaver Creek!

Beaver Creek, USA - Marco Odermatt becomes a ski superstar! On December 7, 2024, he celebrated his first big triumph in Beaver Creek's Super-G and triumphed Sarrazin with only 0.18 seconds over the Frenchman Cyprien Sarrazin. In this gripping competition, the 23-year-old Austrian Lukas Feurstein, who is driving onto the podium for the first time in his World Cup career, also secured a remarkable third place, only 0.47 seconds behind Odermatt. The services of the Austrian athletes were greatly improved compared to the departure the day before, where they were less convincing. Vincent Kriechmayr and Daniel Danklmaier placed in ninth place among the top 10, with Kriechmayr on the sixth and Danklmaier.

a historical victory for Odermatt

At the same time, Odermatt secured his first world championship title in the departure - a milestone for the athlete, who is now also recognized with a gold medal. He won with an impressive time and a lead of 48 hundreds on the Norwegian Aleksander Kilde, who previously won five of eight World Cup runs of this winter. In an emotional moment after his victory, Odermatt admitted: "I have never had such emotions as now. I have never felt a nervousness as now, I still tremble." Such a success proved that the setbacks at the previous World Cup races could not discourage him, as Top Online . With this outstanding performance, Odermatt came into the footsteps of legendary ski stars - it is the first time since 1987 that Switzerland has both the male and female departure world champions

With an almost perfect journey on the "Eclipse", he demonstrated his class - only in the first 20 seconds he was not the fastest. While Kriechmayr placed himself outside the top ten with an unfavorable start number 6, Dominik Paris completed in seventh place. Overall, the competition showed the outstanding talents in alpine skis, with ÖSV athletes like Raphael Haaser and Stefan Babinsky left in search of better placements. But with Odermatt on the way to the top, Switzerland moves into the spotlight more than ever, while the Austrians are trying to keep up in this strong competition.