0.03, then 0.07. Marco Odermatt won Friday’s Kitzbühel super-G by three hundredths from Franjo von Allmen. On Saturday Giovanni Franzoni won the Hahnenkamm downhill in 1:52.31, seven hundredths ahead of Odermatt. The last World Cup speed races before the Olympics were decided by a tenth of a second in total.
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time / Gap — super-G, 23 Jan |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marco OdermattSUI | SUI | 1:08.41 |
| 2 | Franjo von AllmenSUI | SUI | +0.03 |
| 3 | Stefan BabinskyAUT | AUT | n/a |
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time / Gap — downhill, 24 Jan |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Giovanni FranzoniITA | ITA | 1:52.31 |
| 2 | Marco OdermattSUI | SUI | +0.07 |
| 3 | Maxence MuzatonFRA | FRA | n/a |
| 4 | Florian SchiederITA | ITA | n/a |
| 5 | Nils AllègreFRA | FRA | n/a |
Franzoni’s month
Franzoni is 24 and this was only his second time racing at Kitzbühel. His verdict was that it was crazy to be first on his second visit. It was his second World Cup win: the first had come eight days earlier in the Wengen super-G, which Odermatt had also been chasing. Between 19 December and 24 January he went from no World Cup podium to two wins and four podiums.
A Streif downhill is not won by being fastest on the Mausefalle. It is won by surviving the Steilhang with the skis still running and then keeping the line through the Hausbergkante and the traverse, where seven hundredths is about one hesitation. Odermatt, starting twelfth, had none that he would admit to and still lost.
Second again
Odermatt has now finished second in the Kitzbühel downhill three times and has not won it. His reaction was to say he felt stupid for being that disappointed about second place at Kitzbühel. He left the weekend 165 points clear in the downhill standings and 667 clear in the overall.
The Friday super-G was his second Kitzbühel super-G win, after the 2025 race. Von Allmen, who would win three Olympic golds three weeks later, came three hundredths short.
Numbers
- 0.03 and 0.07: the two margins.
- 3: Odermatt’s second places in the Kitzbühel downhill.
- 2: Franzoni’s World Cup wins, both in January 2026.
- 5: Franzoni’s career World Cup podiums, all of them in 2025/26.
Manuel Feller won Sunday’s slalom by 0.35 from Loïc Meillard: at 33, his first win in five years, and Austria’s only men’s slalom win of the winter. Then the tour stopped for the Olympics.