COURCHEVEL, France —
Marco Odermatt became the first
Swiss man to win the overall World Cup alpine skiing title since 2010 on
Wednesday while Mikaela Shiffrin stretched her lead in the women's standing.
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Shiffrin showed she was putting her disastrous
Beijing Winter Olympics behind her as the American won the women's downhill in
Courchevel to stretch her lead in the overall standings.
Odermatt, 24, who won the Olympic men's giant slalom gold
last month, clinched the overall title by finishing second in the downhill
behind Austria's Vincent Kriechmayr. He is the first Swiss man to win the
overall title since Carlo Janka in 2010.
That gave the Swiss an unassailable 359-point lead over
Norwegian rival Aleksander Aamodt Kilde with three races in other disciplines
left for this season. Kilde went on to win the downhill title by finishing
fourth in Wednesday's race.
Shiffrin, 27, failed to win a single medal in Beijing, but
she recorded the 74th World Cup win of her career by finishing in front of
Christine Scheyer of Austria and Joana Haehlen of
Switzerland, who were tied
for second.
Shiffrin has 1,345 points to second-placed Petra Vlhova's
1,189.
In the same race, Italy's Sofia Goggia won the women's
downhill title for the second consecutive season.
Goggia, who won the downhill silver medal at the
Olympics,
finished 12th, seven places ahead of Switzerland's Corinne Suter, the only
skier who could have caught her.
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