VIENNA (AFP) - Norway’s
Aleksander Aamodt Kilde notched up the second World Cup downhill victory of his career in Kitzbuehel on Saturday in a massive morale booster going into next month’s world championships.
In tricky, snowy conditions, the Norwegian clocked 1min 56.90sec to net 100,000 euros ($108,000) in prize money, part of a 1m-euro pot on offer for three days of racing in the upmarket Tyrolean resort.
The result took Kilde to 225 points behind Switzerland’s Marco Odermatt in the overall World Cup standings. The Swiss racer opted out Saturday after taking a bang to his knee in Friday’s downhill, perhaps with an eye fixed on the February 6-19 world champs in Courchevel and Meribel.