Crawford wins and Alexander is 3rd in World Cup downhill as Canadian team impresses in Kitzbuehel
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Crawford wins and Alexander is 3rd in World Cup downhill as Canadian team impresses in Kitzbuehel

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KITZBUEHEL, Austria — James Crawford became the first Canadian skier in 42 years to win the prestigious World Cup downhill on the Streif course, sharing the podium with his third-placed teammate Cameron Alexander on Saturday. But Crawford, the super-G world champion, upset the field and beat Monney by just 0.08 seconds for the Canadian’s first career World Cup win. It’s just incredible and to do it in Kitzbuehel is even better.” The last Canadian winner of the iconic downhill in Kitzbuehel was Todd Brooker in 1983, and the last time two Canadian downhillers shared a World Cup podium was in February 2012, when Jan Hudec won and Erik Guay finished third in Chamonix, France. Downhill world champion and three-time overall World Cup winner Marco Odermatt finished sixth, a day after the Swiss star triumphed in the super-G. “It was a solid race, not the best, and with not the best race you can not win Kitzbuehel, the downhill,” Odermatt said.

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