Vincent Kriechmayr opens Austria's account with men's super-G gold

Austria's Vincent Kriechmayr took the first Alpine skiing World Championship gold medal of his career after winning a tough men's super-G in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. The weather-delayed event finally got underway this morning, with Swiss Lara Gut-Behrami taking women's super-G gold. You can watch the Alpine Ski World Championships ad-free on eurosport.co.uk and the Eurosport app.

Austria's Vincent Kriechmayr picked up the first Alpine skiing World Championship gold medal of his career by taking victory in the men's super-G in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.

The event finally started this morning, three days later than planned, due to bad weather at the venue.

"I watched the guys performing with bib one, two, three and they all missed the gate so it was a really tough race for me," he said.

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Former Austrian racer Romed Baumann seized silver for Germany, just 0.07 slower, after a storming run from 20th on the start list to push France's World Cup overall leader Alexis Pinturault down to bronze.

Pre-race favourite Kriechmayr seals men's super-G gold

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Baumann, 35, was the first skier of the modern era to win world championship medals with two different countries, having taken a bronze in combined for Austria in 2013 on home snow in Schladming.

Italy's big hope Dominik Paris, the defending world champion in the discipline, finished fifth behind Canadian Brodie Seger with Austria's Olympic champion Matthias Mayer sixth after a string of others failed to finish.

The super-G on a cold and sunny afternoon was the first men's race of a championships whose opening three days were blown out by snow, wind and fog in the Italian Dolomites. The women's super-G was run in the morning, with Swiss favourite Lara Gun-Behrami taking victory to claim her first world title.

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