Kjetil Jansrud wins first World Cup downhill of season
VAL D’ISERE, France — Norway dominated, Kjetil Jansrud won, Austria struggled.
The first downhill of the men’s World Cup season on Saturday traced the same path down the sun-soaked Val d’Isere course as the super-G one day earlier.
Jansrud has gone 2-for-2 in the first speed races with teammate Aksel Lund Svindal defying expectations after a 10-month injury absence to join him again on the podium.
Relying on technical skills ahead of pure speed, Jansrud was 0.26 seconds faster than Peter Fill of Italy, the defending World Cup downhill champion, down the 3.4-kilometre (2-mile) Oreiller-Killy course.