With starting number 56
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A huge surprise in Val Gardena/Gröden: Stefan Eichberger raced to a sensational sixth place with bib number 56 in the downhill victory of Switzerland's Marco Odermatt on Saturday, thus saving the ÖSV's honor!
Behind Marco Odermatt, his compatriot Franjo von Allmen (+0.45) and the American Ryan Cochran-Siegle (+0.46) finished second and third. Frenchman Nils Allegre (+0.47) narrowly missed out on the podium.
Seizing the moment
"I took advantage of the moment," said Eichberger, who prevented a red-white-red debacle, in the ORF interview. The 24-year-old Styrian missed third place by just 0.06 seconds. Eichberger had already shown good results in the course of the still young season, but this time he certainly benefited from the Val Gardena/Gröden effect with bib number 56. Martin Cater (SLO/ bib 42/+0.50) in fifth and Romed Baumann (31/+0.53) starting for Germany in seventh took advantage of this for the top 10. Eleventh-placed Canadian Brodie Seger (+0.70) was racing with bib 50.
Odermatt: "The perfect race"
Odermann therefore had to worry about his 40th World Cup victory, his third in the downhill, until the last run. However, the third-placed skier from the previous day could not blame himself. "It was the perfect race for me," he said in the ORF interview. "I felt good, jumped well for once." Odermatt took the decisive tenths off the competition in the Ciaslat core area. "I had a good plan there, it worked out perfectly. My run was perfect, I couldn't have done any better. It's a very, very nice victory."
Eichberger prevented a similarly poor ÖSV result as in the super-G, when Vincent Kriechmayr finished twelfth as the best of his team. This time, Daniel Hemetsberger (+0.76), who skied with number 38, took this place. His 25-year-old compatriot Stefan Rieser took his chance with number 49 in 16th place (+0.97). World Cup points for Red-White-Red were also scored by the Carinthian veteran Otmar Striedinger in 22nd place (+1.10) and Felix Hacker, who had been in the top 10 for a while with number 35, in 29th place (+1.27).
Stefan Babinsky (51st/+2.07) and Kriechmayr (55th/+2.37) after a serious mistake in the middle section were also the eighth and ninth best Austrians in the team behind Andreas Ploier (38th/+1.48) and Manuel Traninger (45th/+1.73) and only ahead of Vincent Wieser (56th/+2.45).
Here is the final result:
Wieser had come in place of Daniel Danklmaier, who crashed in the super-G. Examinations in Innsbruck revealed severe bone bruises on both knees of the 31-year-old. He will have to take a break for six to eight weeks, which means that his World Championship chances are probably over.
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