Overview
- Starting with bib No. 2, Italy’s Giovanni Franzoni set the mark on the Streif and held off Marco Odermatt by 0.07 seconds for the downhill win.
- Florian Schieder finished third, denying France’s Nils Allègre a podium by 0.01 seconds in a race defined by tiny margins.
- Marco Odermatt opened the weekend by winning Friday’s super-G, his eighth victory of the winter and 53rd World Cup win, marking his 99th podium.
- The super-G podium was separated by tenths, with Switzerland’s Franjo Van Allmen second at +0.03 and Austria’s Stefan Babinsky third at +0.25.
- France faces final Olympic selections due Monday with seven men’s alpine quotas and at most three spots for speed specialists, a choice complicated by clustered Kitzbühel results.