SOLDEU, Andorra (AP)– It’s been the script all season long in guys’s World Cup downhills: If Aleksander Aamodt Kilde does not win, then Vincent Kriechmayr will.
Kriechmayr made the most of Kilde being a little off his video game at the World Cup Finals on Wednesday to take his 4th race win of the season.
Kriechmayr was quick on the lower half of the 2.6-kilometer (1.6-mile) course to complete 0.09 seconds ahead of Romed Baumann. Andreas Sander was 3rd, 0.13 back.
Kilde ended up 0.30 behind in a tie for 6th, though had actually currently kept the season-long World Cup downhill title with 6 race wins in the discipline. He existed with his crystal world prize after the race.
The last downhill of the World Cup season was likewise a profession goodbye for veterans Johan Clarey and Travis Ganong of the United States, who positioned 12 th and 20 th, respectively. Both were welcomed in the surface location with showers of Champagne from colleagues and buddies.
The 42- year-old Clarey retires as the ruling Olympic silver medalist with 6 runner-up surfaces in World Cup downhills however no wins in 151 begins.
The popular Frenchman does, nevertheless, hold a World Cup record that may never ever be beaten when speed is now more managed on thoroughly handled courses. Clarey clocked a speed of 162 kph (1006 miles per hour) in a 2013 race at Wengen, Switzerland.
The fastest speed on Wednesday under ideal blue skies in Andorra was close to 131 kph (81 miles per hour) by Otmar Striedinger, who complete 8th.
Kriechmayr’s 16 th profession World Cup race win was his ninth in downhill. The 31- year-old Austrian likewise took gold at the 2021 world champions.
Marco Odermatt, who prospered Kriechmayr as world champ last month, put 15 th Wednesday. The Swiss star currently sealed his 2nd straight general World Cup title.
Kilde will end up runner-up in the general standings when the season ends Sunday.
The ladies’s season-ending World Cup downhill was because of begin 30 minutes after the males ended. ___
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