Marco Odermatt secures the first World Championship medal of his career. After a complicated start to the year with a knee injury, Odermatt triumphed in the downhill in Courchevel in front of the Norwegian dominator Aleksander Kilde.
Now he’s also world champion: Marco Odermatt wins gold in the downhill.
The palmarès is complete. Marco Odermatt, 25 years old, is now also world champion, in the supreme discipline downhill – of all things. The Brothers Grimm might hardly have come up with such a fairy tale better. Because before the World Championships in Courchevel, the 25-year-old from Nidwalden was missing two things: a victory in a downhill and a medal at the World Championships. Odermatt won Olympic gold and the overall World Cup last year.