2024-03-01 23:39:14
Marco Odermatt (Switzerland) continued his unique streak and now has 11 consecutive victories in the giant slalom in the ski world cup. Thus, he came close to 3 successes from Ingemar Stenmark’s all-time record. That’s exactly how many starts remain until the end of the season.
In Aspen, he was 14 hundredths ahead of his compatriot Loic Meyer. Atle Lee McGrath was third at 81 hundredths.
Until the end of the season, there is one more giant slalom in Aspen, then another in Kranjska Gora and the last one is the finals in Saalbach.
The race was extremely difficult, with almost half of the competitors not finishing the first run. Because of this, Andrei Drukarov from Lithuania with starting number 42, the Australian Louis Mühlen-Schulte (46) and even Luca Erni from Switzerland, who started 62nd out of 66 competitors, were in the second place. And on top of that, they also got points.
By the final, 41 out of 66 competitors had reached the first descent.
Actually, it was the giant slalom that was supposed to open the world cup in Sölden (Austria), but it was canceled.
Aspen has hosted a giant slalom for only the eighth time over the years. Phil Mehr (1981, 1983), Pirmin Zurbriggen (1984), Mark Girardelli (1985), Ingemar Stenmark (1989), Albert Tomba (1991), Frederik Nyberg (1994) and Marcel Hirscher (2017) have won this discipline at the resort. .