GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany, Feb 28 AFP - Hannes Reichelt headed an all-Austrian podium for the second week running in Saturday's shortened men's downhill at a foggy Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Reichelt topped the times in training for this latest leg of the men's alpine skiing World Cup season, and he used his speed on the German slope to good effect, posting a time of 1min 11.90sec.
His compatriots Romed Bauman (at one hundredths of a second) and Olympic champion Matthias Mayer (23 hundredths) crossed in second and third.
Mayer had led an Austrian 1-2-3 in last week's downhill, adding the super-G at Saalbach 24 hours later.
This was 34-year-old super-G world champion Reichelt's third World Cup win of the campaign after downhill success in Beaver Creek and Wengen.
He moves up to second in the World Cup downhill standings behind Norway's Kjetil Jansrud, who was the big disappointment here trailing in only 17th.
Patrick Keung, the surprise downhill world champion at Beaver Creek, did marginally better in 12th.
Marcel Hirscher, who sits atop the overall World Cup standings, will start favourite to pursue his Crystal Globe ambitions in Sunday's giant slalom where his main rival will be American triple world champion Ted Ligety.
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