Alpine Skiing: Didier Cuche wins the legendary Kitzbühel downhill

After the victory in the Super G, Didier Cuche wins the legendary Streif downhill in Kitzbühel.

A successful Didier for Didier

Didier Cuche succeeds the skier from Morgins, Didier Defago, who had won the race in 2009. The skier from Bugnenets (canton of Neuchâtel) wins this race for the 3rd time in his career (after 1998 and 2008) and thus reaches the level of Pirmin Zurbriggen and Franz Heinzer who have won this downhill 3 times.

Emotions

Le skieur helvétique a fondu en larme en réalisant la porté de son exploit. Déclaration de Kuke (D. Cuche): « C’est une énorme pression qui s’en va. Après la course, j’ai craqué ». Didier a décrit ce week-end comme « le plus beau de sa carrière » ce doublé Super G – Descente devant des millers de fans autrichiens est extraordinaire à vivre.

In the overall standings, Cuche made a jump of 200 points in 2 days and is now 69 points behind his compatriot Janka and 17 points behind Benjamin Raich (Aut).

Men's downhill standings from January 23, 2010

1. Didier Cuche SUI 1’53″74
2. Andrej Sporn SLO + 0″28
3. Werner Heel ITA 0″39
4. Mario Scheiber AUT 0″51
5. Aksel Svindal NOR 0″68
6. Hans Grugger AUT 0″75
7. Didier Défago SUI 1″08
8. Bode Miller USA 1″16
9. Carlo Janka SUI 1″25
10. Romed Baumann AUT 1″48
11. Patrik Jaerbyn SWE 1″53
12. Erik Guay CAN 1″55
13. Marco Buechel LIE 1″65
14. Andrej Jerman SLO 1″70
15. Marco Sullivan USA 1″75