Aksel Lund Svindal wins downhill in Bormio, sixth Christof Innerhofer

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A great Aksel Lund Svindal wins for the first time in his career the men's downhill in Bormio and is increasingly a leader in the overall standings of the World Cup.

Sunday 29 December 2013 3 minutes reading time

On a trail of mutilated first jump and under a constant snowfall Norwegian, that the Stelvio before the third position last year had won only two sixth places, it was flawless except perhaps in the final and took home the 25th victory in the World Cup, the fourth of the season, the eighth in his career and second of the season in the downhill. According to 39 cents was placed Hannes Reichelt, who won last year ex-aequo with Dominik Paris today absent, the Austrian is the third podium of the season and second in downhill, specialty in which he has gleaned eight career . 51 cents in the third winner of the Val Gardena Erik Guay that with 21 podiums in total, of which 15 are down, becomes the Canadian with the most podium finishes in the World Cup unplugging Steve Podborski, standing at an altitude of 20, he had never in Bormio done better than fourth place in 2011. Fourth position for Adrien Theaux to 89 cents, also the best result on the Stelvio, was seventh in 2010, fifth Austrian Matthias Mayer and downhill had never done better eleventh place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen last February. Sixth Christof Innerhofer, the first of the blue that almost all paid their shortcomings on the snow soft and smooth except on the initial Silvano Varettoni, gorgeous eighth with the number 30 and the third placing in the top ten Cup exactly as Travis Ganong U.S., with the ninth number 2. Seventh the reigning Olympic champion, Switzerland's Didier Defago, the best result of the season, the tenth Austrian Joachim Puchner. In the overall standings of the World Cup Svindal has 195 points ahead of Marcel Hirscher and in the specialty has 93 on Guay. We will update you on the final placings of the other big Cup and the other blue.

Max Valle

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