Murisier surprises everyone: First World Cup victory in Beaver Creek!

Murisier surprises everyone: First World Cup victory in Beaver Creek!

Beaver Creek, USA - in Beaver Creek, Colorado, Justin Murisier caused a big surprise by winning the first departure of the 2024 ski alpine season with a rousing performance. The 32-year-old Swiss drove his fastest terms and overtook the well-known favorite Marco Odermatt with a time of 1: 40.04 minutes, who took second place with a gap of only 0.20 seconds. Miha Hrobat from Slovenia also shone and completed a surprising podium with third place (+0.35 seconds). This marks its first medal for Hrobat in the World Cup, while Murisier is celebrating his first World Cup victory after he was only on the podium once, like laola1.at reported

While the audience was happy about the performance of the athletes, there was also a worrying incident: Arnaud Boisset fell violently in the lower part of the route and hit his head on the ice, which interrupted the race for about 25 minutes. Fortunately, he came back to a hospital with a rescue slide during the transportation with a rescue sled. href = "https://www.srf.ch/ski-alpin/weltcup-maenner/ downheave-beaver-creek-siegpremiere-vor- or

The best Austrian was Vincent Kriechmayr, who reached the finish (+0.65 seconds), while other domestic athletes like Stefan Babinsky and Daniel Danklmaier did not achieve the best positions. Nevertheless, it was a gratifying day for Stefan Eichberger, who in his second World Cup race with the start number 55 ended up in 20th place and thus collected his first World Cup points. Further races are already scheduled for the weekend in Beaver Creek, including the Super-G on Saturday and the giant slalom on Sunday.