Alpine skiing: Marco Odermatt wins in Santa Caterina, Meillard fourth.

“Extremely emotional!” – Odermatt wins in Santa Caterina and ends the Swiss drought

Marco Odermatt became the first Swiss to win a giant World Cup slalom in almost ten years. The man from Nidwalden, already leading after the first race, won the second race at Santa Caterina.

Odermatt was in a class of his own in Lombardy. The Swiss center distanced the American Tommy Ford, second classified, with 73 hundredths. Third place went to Croatian Filip Zubcic. The winner of the first race on Saturday took 18 places in the second race with a faster time.

Odermatt celebrated his second World Cup victory. It’s almost exactly a year to the day he won the Super-G at Beaver Creek. The last “giant” winner was Carlo Janka. The Bündner won on March 5, 2011 in Kranjska Gora, a few days after a heart operation.

Odermatt, who finished second in Sölden and third in Santa Caterina 48 hours ago, was not only Monday number 1. Now he is not only the leader in the discipline classification. Now he is also ahead of the general classification together with Frenchman Alexis Piturault.

There was little to go, the tiny three hundredths to be precise, and the Swiss would have been two on the podium, as they did at the exit from Sölden. Loïc Meillard finished fourth to three hundredths behind Zubcic. For Neuchâtel, it was the third place in the top five in the third giant slalom of the winter. He was fifth in Sölden and fourth in the first giant replacement slalom for Val d’Isère in Santa Caterina on Saturday.

Gino Caviezel, who was only able to avoid elimination in the second round but lost a lot of time in the incident, fell back from sixth place to last in the standings in the final standings. World Cup points were also won by Justin Murisier (22nd) and Daniel Yule (24th), who delivered a tally result for the first time in his second World Cup giant slalom. (abu / sda)