The Frenchman cemented his position as favorite by defeating Italian Florian Schieder on Friday at the Strife track in Austria. He follows in the footsteps of Jean-Claude Killy and Luc Alfand.
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He is unstoppable. Cyprian Sarrazin won the downhill of Kitzbühel (Austria) by skiing five hundredths faster than the Italian Florian Schider on Friday, January 19, while we were expecting a duel with the Swiss Marco Odermatt, the leader of the general classification, in the end third (on 34 “). Bormio This is the third victory of the season for the 29-year-old Frenchman, after the downhill in (Italy) and the super-G in Wengen (Switzerland).
The Gap native didn’t catch a cold, with the race being postponed for an hour due to reduced visibility after snowfall on the Strafe track. With his bib 14, he combined control and power at the end of the course to become the third French skier to conquer the legendary descent of the Austrian Tyrol, after Jean-Claude Killy in 1967 and Luc Alphand (three times between 1995 and 1997).
“It wasn’t a perfect run, but I finished with heart, I knew I had to finish very fast with these little mistakes at the top”, Sarrazin responded on Eurosport’s microphone. With this result, he also achieved his fourth consecutive World Cup podium. On Saturday, before the second event of the discipline, enough to allow him to come back 26 small points behind Odermatt in the downhill small globe race, as a bonus.
