Odermatt celebrates giant slalom victory and secures the crystal ball!

Odermatt celebrates giant slalom victory and secures the crystal ball!

Marco Odermatt today, on March 15, 2025, calculated his triumph in the overall World Cup. At the giant slalom in Hafjell, Norway, the Swiss took second place behind Loic Meillard. With this result, he expanded his lead overall to impressive 635 points. Even with five outstanding races, the fourth large crystal ball is no longer to be taken in a row. Henrik Kristoffersen, his first pursuer, will not be able to contest all races in the season finale in the USA. Radio Euskirchen " reports that ...

With this success, Odermatt also won the discipline rating in the giant slalom prematurely and secured the small crystal ball for the fourth time in a row. In the Super-G, the 26-year-old also won the small crystal ball and now also leads to his teammate Franjo van Allmen in the departure with an 83 point ahead of his teammate.

The race in Hafjell

in the hard -fought race in Hafjell, Odermatt missed his ninth win of the season by only 0.14 seconds. Loic Meillard turned out to be the strongest competitor that day. Thomas Tumler, also from Switzerland, took third place with a gap of only 0.23 seconds. The German Anton Grammel was also able to look forward to an outstanding event. He achieved his best career result with a tenth place and was the only German for the World Cup final in Sun Valley, USA. Grammel improved by 15 places in the second run and was able to successfully assert itself among the best 25 in the discipline rating. added that ...

In the overall ranking, Odermatt is already 106 points ahead of Kristoffersen in the giant slalom, which underlines its dominance in this discipline. In the meantime, Fabian Gratz scored 25th place, while Stefan Luitz and Jonas Stockinger ended up in ranks 35 and 44, with Luitz missed the second run only five hundredths and had a clear deficit.