Marco Odermatt wins his 11th giant slalom in a row to add that title to his overall World Cup title
Marco Odermatt wins his 11th giant slalom in a row to add that title to his overall World Cup title
Switzerland’s Marco Odermatt competes during a men’s World Cup giant slalom skiing race, Friday, March 1, 2024, in Aspen, Colo. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Switzerland’s Marco Odermatt competes during a men’s World Cup giant slalom skiing race Friday, March 1, 2024, in Aspen, Colo. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Switzerland’s Marco Odermatt competes during a men’s World Cup giant slalom skiing race, Friday, March 1, 2024, in Aspen, Colo. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Switzerland’s Marco Odermatt competes during a men’s World Cup giant slalom skiing race, Friday, March 1, 2024, in Aspen, Colo. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Switzerland’s Marco Odermatt competes during a men’s World Cup giant slalom skiing race Friday, March 1, 2024, in Aspen, Colo. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Switzerland’s Marco Odermatt competes during a men’s World Cup giant slalom skiing race Friday, March 1, 2024, in Aspen, Colo. (AP Photo/John Locher)
ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — Marco Odermatt stretched his World Cup giant slalom winning streak to 11 races on Friday and added that discipline’s season title to the overall title he clinched last weekend.
Odermatt won the last three GS events last season and is now 8-0 this season, opening up a 470-point lead with three races remaining, so he can’t be caught. The record for most consecutive World Cup victories in one discipline is 14, set by Ingemar Stenmark in the giant slalom in the late 1970s.
Last weekend at the Palisades Tahoe resort in California, Odermatt clinched a third straight overall title by winning his 10th giant slalom in a row. He also is leading the downhill and super-G World Cup standings.
On Friday, Odermatt completed two runs down the Strawpile slope in Aspen on a sunny day in 2 minutes, 7.87 seconds, beating Swiss teammate Loic Meillard by 0.14 seconds. Atle Lie McGrath of Norway was third, 0.81 off the pace.
Only one other ski racer, fourth-place Thomas Tumler of Switzerland, finished within a second of Odermatt, who is the reigning Olympic gold medalist and world champion in the GS.
Odermatt was leading after the opening leg and sixth-quickest in the second on Friday.
This GS originally was supposed to be held in Soelden, Austria, in October at the start of the season, but it was halted midway through because of strong wind and rescheduled.
There will be another giant slalom in Aspen on Saturday, followed by a slalom on Sunday.
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