Crawford Wins and Alexander is third in the World Cup downhill while the Canadian team impresses in Kitzbuehel

Kitzbuehel, Austria (AP) -James Crawford became the first Canadian skier in 42 years to win the prestigious World Cup Based in the Streif course, sharing the podium with his third teammate Cameron Alexander on Saturday.

Using Babero No. 20 and going down after all the favorites prior to the race they had completed their careers, Crawford led Alexis Monney to the second position.

The Swiss skier took an early advantage as the starting room and seemed ready for his second victory in his career, weeks later triumph in Bormio in the descent course that will be used for the Milan-Cortina Olympic Games next year. Alexander also ended third in that race.

But Crawford, the Super G World ChampionHe bothered the field and beat Monney for only 0.08 seconds for the first victory of the Canadian World Cup. Alexander followed by 0.22 in third.

“I have shown a downward speed before and I feel that I have been trying to return to the maximum speed for a while,” Crawford told Austrian TV. “I have no words that can describe emotions. It’s amazing and doing it in Kitzbuehel is even better. “

The last Canadian winner of the iconic descent in Kitzbuehel was Todd Brooker in 1983, and the last time two Canadian plaques shared a World Cup podium was in February 2012, when Jan Hudec won and Erik Guay finished third in Chamonix, France.

The impressive result for the Canadian team occurred 10 days before the start of the World Championship in another Austrian complex, Saalbach-Hintergymm. Crawford in Super-G and Alexander, who took the bronze downhill, won medals in the world in France two years ago.

The world champion downhill and the three -time World Cup winner Marco Odermatt finished sixth, one day after the Swiss star triumphed in the super g.

“It was a solid career, not the best, and not with the best race you can’t win Kitzbuehel, the descent,” said Odermatt. “There is a great goal and a dream.”

The 85th edition of the Hahnenkamm races ends with a Slalom on Sunday.

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