Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany: Marco Odermatt hit back after missing out on Olympic gold to win the men’s World Cup downhill race at Garmisch-Partenkirchen on Saturday, extending his overall lead atop the standings.
Odermatt pipped fellow Swiss Alexis Monney, who finished just four hundredths of a second slower, with Stefan Rogentin coming third to complete an all-Swiss podium.
It was Odermatt’s first World Cup downhill victory on the Kandahar piste at Garmisch, where he won the Super-G in 2024.
“Very, very cool,” Odermatt told ARD.
“It’s always a bit uneven with the spring snow, but there weren’t any big potholes to make it dangerous.” A gold-medal favourite at the Milan-Cortina Olympics, Odermatt could only finish fourth, with fellow countryman Franjo von Allmen winning gold.
Von Allmen, the only one with a mathematical chance of catching Odermatt in this season’s World Cup downhill standings, finished sixth. Odermatt sizzled from start to finish during an incredible run, finishing more than a second ahead of the field up to that point.
