Marco Odermatt secures overall and giant slalom Crystal Globes with third consecutive Alpine skiing World Cup win

Marco Odermatt secured the overall and giant slalom titles with a third consecutive win as he did the double in Kranjska Gora, beating Henrik Kristoffersen and Alexis Pinturault. Odermatt was all-but confirmed as the overall champion when Aleksander Aamodt Kilde opted to miss this weekend’s races and the Swiss star is now mathematically uncatchable.

Ad Kristoffersen had an exceptional second run, but it wasn’t enough to stop Odermatt from winning his sixth giant slalom race of the season, and with it, the giant slalom Crystal Globe. Kranjska Gora'Like a red rag to a bull' — Odermatt secures first run Giant Slalom lead in Kranjska Gora3 HOURS AGO Despite Slovakian coach Epstein Poul setting a difficult course that featured a lot of swing, Odermatt was still fastest in the first run as he nailed the final dozen gates.

Pinturault was only 0.28 seconds behind and Kristoffersen still had chance of the win at 0.47 seconds off the pace. Thomas Tumler set the early benchmark time in the second run with a combined time of 2:25.04, before being bumped down by a superb run from Belgium’s Sam Maes.

Loic Meillard had a disappointing first run but his second effort moved him up from 18th to 11th, by the end of the afternoon, as he lowered the new target time to 2:24.11. Rasmus Windingstad went to the top by 0.16 seconds with 11 athletes to go, then Filip Zubcic and Marco Schwarz both had short spells in first place.

Filippo Della Vite’s impressive rise continued as he risked it all to snatch the lead away from Schwarz, with just 0.06 seconds separating the pair. Zan Kranjec somewhat made up for his underwhelming result on Saturday with a clean second run which put him 0.21 seconds ahead of Della Vite on home soil to get the crowd on