Thomas Dressen wins the second downhill in a row

Frenchman Maxence Muzaton, who set the best time in both training runs, opens the race. His ride is calm and clean, but in the end it should not be enough for the podium. The Austrian Max Franz started the race with a lot of hope, before the start he was confident that he could achieve a good ranking, but already in the first passage it drives him out of the track and he loses a lot of time.

Swinging as ever, Mauro Caviezel starts the race, hoping for his first World Cup victory. Soon once shine incredible -0.81 seconds lead at the intermediate time, but he also fights like a rodeo rider with the slope. The intermediate lead ends with the final third place.

Vincent Kriechmayer enters the race as a promising representative of the Austrians. He shows a usual technical clean run of course with a few strokes which the track simply gives and pushes him as the best Austrian to the sixth final rank. It is not the day of the Austrians today.

Beat Feuz starts the race with bib number 7. The leader in the Downhill World Cup can close the bag today and win the Downhill World Cup early. As usual, he shows a technically sovereign run and takes 0.02 seconds over the leader Caviezel to the finish, which means he takes the lead. Dressen and Mayer are the main contenders for victory at the top.

The German enters the race with number 13. Obviously 13 is his lucky number, because in the upper passage, like many before him, he struggles with a snowfall that almost throws him off course, but he saves himself and despite a run that is also marked by the struggle with the impacts of the piste, to his own amazement he takes the lead at the finish with a 0.07 second advantage over Beat Feuz.

Matthias Mayer does not fare any better than his compatriots. Although he starts promisingly and takes the lead at the intermediate time with an advantage over the leading Dressen, he does not manage to maintain the lead and loses significantly in the lower section: In the end it is 11th place.

The Swiss Nils Hintermann and Carlo Janka start the race with the numbers 16 and 17, from whom nobody actually expects a victory, but the two show a surprisingly good performance each and advance to fourth and fifth place, completing the Swiss quartet.

Since his surprising victory of the Super G in Kitzbühel, the Norwegian Kjetil Jansrud is again a candidate for victories. If he takes 0.12 seconds off the leading Dressen at the first intermediate time, he already has an impressive lead of -0.55 seconds at the second intermediate time. That should actually be the victory if he continues like this. But he loses time towards the bottom - maybe he wants to make it too safe?- and has only 0.09 seconds advantage at the last intermediate time. Unfortunately the Norwegian continues to lose time and ends up in 6th place, 0.54 seconds behind, together with Kriechmayer. What a pity, we would have liked to see the old master win.