Beat Feuz took advantage of a lowered start to beat Bode Miller to victory in Friday's World Cup Super-G race at Val Gardena.
Swiss claims second World Cup win of career
Switzerland's Beat Feuz took advantage of a lowered start to beat Bode Miller to victory in Friday's Alpine ski World Cup Super-G race at Val Gardena.
After three podium places in the North American leg of the season, Feuz mastered the shortened Saslong piste in one minute 21.51 seconds to claim the second World Cup win of his career.
"It's a very special victory as I won ahead of Bode who was always my idol," the 24-year-old said afterwards.
"I watched the others go down and I tried to understand why the gaps were increasing behind Bode. I just tried to ski as best as I know and it's a bit of a surprise to me."
Feuz, who also won a downhill in Kvitfjell in March, dislodged American Miller from the top spot by 0.3s. The latter won his first World Cup race for more than three years in the Beaver Creek downhill two weeks ago, but a decision by organisers to lower Friday's start by 250 metres because of poor visibility handicapped the speed specialist.
Norwegian Kjetil Jansrud was third, a further 0.15 seconds behind and ahead of team-mate Aksel Lund Svindal.
Svindal, the specialty's Olympic champion, leads the overall World Cup standings on 384 points, 24 more than second-placed Feuz.
Heavy snow and gale-force winds are forecast for Saturday, when Val Gardena is due to host a downhill race.
