2,042. Marco Odermatt, 25, won the final giant slalom of the season in Soldeu on Saturday by 2.11 seconds. That gave him 2,042 World Cup points for the winter. Hermann Maier set the men’s record of 2,000 in 1999/2000. Odermatt has beaten it.
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marco OdermattSUI | SUI | — |
| 2 | Henrik KristoffersenNOR | NOR | +2.11 |
| 3 | Marco SchwarzAUT | AUT | +2.29 |
The race
Odermatt was 1.09 seconds ahead of Alexis Pinturault after the first run. Pinturault dropped to eighth. Before the race Maier said on his website that he hoped Odermatt would beat his mark. 2.11 seconds between first and second is a very large margin for a World Cup giant slalom.
2022/23 by the numbers
- 2,042 points, a men’s single-season record. The overall record for men and women is Tina Maze’s 2,414 (2012/13).
- 13 wins, equalling the men’s season record held by Ingemar Stenmark, Maier and Marcel Hirscher. The overall record is Mikaela Shiffrin’s 17 in 2018/19.
- 22 podiums, including doubles in Kranjska Gora (GS) and Cortina (super-G).
- 3 globes: overall, giant slalom, super-G.
- 0 World Cup downhill wins. He won the downhill world title in Courchevel anyway.
The other globes
- Downhill: Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, retained. Eight wins and 13 podiums this season, up from seven wins and nine podiums last winter.
- Slalom: Lucas Braathen, aged 22. He clinched it with second place in Soldeu’s slalom, ahead of Henrik Kristoffersen, who missed the slalom globe but won the slalom world title.
Johan Clarey, 42, finished 12th in the Soldeu downhill and retired. In January in Kitzbühel he had become the oldest podium finisher in World Cup history.
Reading the numbers
Odermatt beat Maier’s mark without a single World Cup downhill win, by scoring big in GS and super-G every weekend and picking up downhill podiums. A record like that comes from rarely having a bad day, not from a few huge ones.