At the World Cup final in Courchevel, the Norwegian Aleksander Kilde secures the downhill ball – also because Marco Odermatt is faster than Beat Feuz and thus definitely secures the overall World Cup.
(sda) Beat Feuz missed the renewed victory in the Downhill World Cup. The man from Bern beats Aleksander Kilde in the final in Courchevel, but is no longer able to displace the Norwegian from the top.
Feuz finished third behind Austrian Vincent Kriechmayr, who claimed his second win of the season after the one in Wengen, and Marco Odermatt, with Kilde fourth. In the final classification of disciplines, the Norwegian kept the better end for himself with a lead of 13 points.
Kilde is the first rider in seven years and his recently retired teammate Kjetil Jansrud to secure both scoops in speed in the same season. He won the Super-G classification for the first time six years ago, and the winter before last he was overall World Cup winner.
Feuz missed something historical. If he had secured the downhill ball again, he would have been the first athlete to win this glass cup five times in a row. Franz Klammer remains the sole record holder with five discipline victories.
Odermatt missed his first win in a World Cup downhill by 34 hundredths. However, second place was enough to make everything clear in the overall ranking, also mathematically. Before the last three races of this final week, a super-G, a giant slalom and a slalom, he leads the classification with an unassailable lead of 359 points over Kilde.
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