At 25, the current best skier in the world Marco Odermatt won the first world title of his career, on the occasion of the descent in Courchevel, where he flew over the competition. Aleksander Aamodt Kilde and Cameron Alexander complete the podium, while the first Frenchman, Maxence Muzaton, finished in a very good sixth place.
He already had an Olympic gold medal and a big crystal globe to his credit, here he is now world champion! At 25, Marco Odermatt confirms his status as the best skier in the world today, with a gold medal won this Sunday during the descent of the Courchevel Worlds. The Swiss signed a ski demonstration on the Eclipse slope. Leaving with bib number 10, in perfect conditions (sun, no wind, 2°c), the native of Buochs delivered a perfect race, even though it was not his favorite discipline.orite, who has never won a downhill in the World Cup, but has climbed four podiums this season. Odermatt was able to respond on D-Day and won his very first world medal, after finishing fourth in Cortina two years ago. After his passage, there were still 35 competitors to descend the slope, but few of them worried him.
⛷ #CourchevelMeribel2023 | MONSTROUS MARCO ODERMATT 🇨🇭! The Swiss flew in this Eclipse track, he set the new reference time with more than a second ahead of Florian Schieder 🇮🇹! It has almost killed the race already.
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— francetvsport (@francetvsport) February 12, 2023
Kilde still silver
In the end, it was Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, who was two tenths ahead of Odermatt at the first intermediate crossing point, but then weakened, who won the silver medal, 48 hundredths behind the Swiss. The 30-year-old Norwegian, who had won his first world medal three days ago with silver in the Super-G, offers himself a second podium, ahead of the Canadian Cameron Alexander, who started with bib 20, who finishes at 89 hundredths. At 25, the native of Vancouver climbs on his first podium in the world championshipshe who also only climbed on a single podium in the World Cup, during his surprise victory at Kvitfjell last March.
The nice surprise Muzaton
On the French side, we expected a lot from Johan Clarey, for one of the last races of his career, at 42 years old. But despite the encouragement of the public, the one who climbed on two World Cup podiums this winter finished almost two seconds behind Marco Odermatt. It was finally Maxence Muzaton who finished best tricolor, with a very good sixth place. Substitute for this descent a few days ago, the skier from La Plagne signed one of the best descents of his career, cracking only at the end compared to the cadors of the circuit, while he was on the provisional podium 30 seconds from the end. On Monday, no race will be on the program for these Worlds in France. See you on Tuesday for the team parallel.
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS (MEN) / COURCHEVEL (FRANCE)
Downhill Ranking – Sunday February 12, 2023
1- Marco Odermatt (SUI) in 1’47″05
2- Aleksander Aamondt Kilde (NOR) à 0″48
3- Cameron Alexander (CAN) at 0″89
4- Marco Schwarz (AUT) at 0″93
5- James Crawford (CAN) at 1″01
6- Maxence Muzaton (FRA) at 1″08
7- Florian Schieder (ITA) at 1″09
8- Miha Hrobat (SLO) à 1″13
– Dominik Paris (ITA) at 1″13
10- Thomas Dressen (GER) at 1″15
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21- Nils Allègre (FRA) at 1″87
23- Johan Clarey (FRA) at 1″89
34- Adrien Théaux (FRA) at 3″46
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Abandons : Otmar Striedinger (AUT), Brodie Seger (CAN)…
