Dominik Paris dominates in Kvitfjell, in the last downhill of the season at the World Cup finals underway in Lillehammer. The 36-year-old from Merano achieved his seventh career victory on Norwegian snow, five in downhill and two in super-G, ten years and nine days after the first time (12 March 2016). Success number 25, 20 in the downhill and 5 in the super-G, in the World Cup for the Italian champion, who crossed the finish line 1’45″37 ahead of the Swiss Franjo Von Allmen by 0″19 and became the second most successful Italian ever, ahead of Gustav Thoeni, third at 24. Alberto Tomba is uncatchable with 50 victories in the FIS circuit.
“Not a perfect performance but I tried to make the skis run. I had good sensations and felt good, seeing the best time at the finish line was beautiful. My friends and my mother are there: it’s nice to win in front of them and I’m happy to have managed to repeat myself here after last year”, the words of Paris, who climbs to second place among the most successful in the discipline behind only the Austrian Franz Klammer, leader with 25 successes. The Swiss Peter Muller is further behind, third with 19 victories.
The Austrian Vincent Kriechmayr completes the day’s podium, third at 0″60. Marco Odermatt, already certain of the specialty and general Cup, finishes seventh at 0″92 behind his compatriot Stefan Rogentin (+0″89). Also in the top ten are the Italians Benjamin Jacques Alliod, eighth at 1″12, and Florian Schieder, tenth at 1″27. Further back Mattia Casse, 20th at 2″45, and Christof Innerhofer, 21st at 2″70. Paris also regains third place in the specialty ranking: Odermatt was already certain of the third consecutive success and finishes with 706 points ahead of Von Allmen (515) and Paris (441), with Kriechmayr fourth (441) followed by Franzoni (378) and Schieder (277): three Italians among the best 6 testimony to the excellent year of Italian speed. The World Cup finals continue in a men’s way tomorrow with the super-G, with Paris going in search of an encore, a feat he has already achieved twice in Kvitfjell, in 2109 and 2025.