Dominik Paris triumphs in the downhill race in Kitzbühel

Dominik Paris and Beat Feuz were in a league of their own. The Swiss set an incredible best time with start number 7 and was faster than the training best time of 1:57,02 minutes. But with number 13, Dominik Paris rocked the Streif: After the mousetrap, the Ultner was ahead of Feuz, and in the intermediate times two and three, the Swiss was faster than Paris. At the last split, “Domme” was 0,02 seconds ahead of the Swiss and at the finish the South Tyrolean was 1 seconds ahead with a time of 56,82:0,20.

With a fabulous run, Paris destroyed world champion Beat Feuz's dream of winning the downhill classic. Nevertheless: Paris and Feuz threw their arms around each other when they were replaced on the leaderboard - the mutual respect between the downhill aces is great. Currently third is Otmar Striedinger (AUT), who took advantage of the better lighting conditions.

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For Paris it is the third downhill victory in Kitz (2013, 2017, 2019); in 2015, the 29-year-old also won the Super-G on the Streif. This means that Paris is only two wins away from the downhill record set by Swiss Didier Cuche, who holds the record with five wins. The ski legends Pirmin Zurbriggen, Luc Alphand, Franz Heinzer and Karl Schranz have three downhill victories on the Streif.

It is the third win of the season for Dominik Paris, who won downhill and super-G in Bormio shortly before the turn of the year. The Ultner now has a total of 12 World Cup victories to his name.

Gaiser Christof Innerhofer finished the downhill classic in fourth place, 0,93 seconds behind. Nevertheless, for “Inner” it is the best downhill result in Kitz. However, Werner Heel from Passiria was unable to continue his great training ride on Thursday. Matteo Marsaglia showed a strong performance, finishing tenth with the high number 47. Florian Schieder from Castelrotto finished his first World Cup downhill on the infamous Streif in 36th place, his teammate Alexander Prast (Bozen) was 0,01 seconds faster and came in 35th. Chapeau!

The descent was overshadowed by the fall of Alexander Köll (SWE), who lost control while exiting the traverse and hit his back on the finish slope. The 28-year-old was flown to hospital by rescue helicopter.

The slalom on the Ganslernhang follows in Kitz on Saturday (9.30:12.30 a.m./13.30:XNUMX p.m.). Weather conditions permitting, there will be the Super-G on Sunday at XNUMX:XNUMX p.m.

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Dominik Paris triumphs in the downhill race in Kitzbühel

Dominik Paris from Ultimo is chasing the Streif record set by the Swiss Didier Cuche. Paris celebrated its third downhill victory in Kitzbühel on Friday, after 2013 and 2017.

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