Swiss Marco Odermatt is the world’s top-ranked super-G and giant slalom skier, but his first world championships medal, and gold medal, came in the downhill on Sunday.

Odermatt, the 2022 Olympic GS champion who has no World Cup downhill wins, sped to downhill gold by 48 hundredths of a second over Norwegian favorite Aleksander Aamodt Kilde in Courchevel, France.

Kilde, who won five of the eight World Cup downhills this season, skied after Odermatt and led the Swiss by two tenths at the first intermediate split. But he steadily gave back time over the final 80 seconds of the course.

Canadian Cameron Alexander was the surprise bronze medalist in his first Olympic or world championships race. Alexander has one World Cup top five (a downhill win last March).

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