Svindal wins Beaver Creek downhill

Norwegian skier Aksel Lund Svindal has won the World Cup downhill at Beaver Creek in

Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal in action at the Alpine Ski World Cup

Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal has won the men's alpine World Cup downhill at Beaver Creek in Colorado. (AAP)

Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal won the men's alpine World Cup downhill at Beaver Creek on Friday.

Svindal, the reigning World Cup downhill and super-G champion and winner of a super-G at Lake Louise on Sunday, clocked 1min 44.50 seconds to finish .17sec ahead of Austrian Hannes Reichelt.

Italian Peter Fill was third, 20sec behind the winner.

Canada's Manuel Osborne-Paradis missed out on a podium place by just .04sec.

Svindal suffered a horrific crash on Beaver Creek's Birds of Prey course in 2007.

He returned to the Colorado Rockies the following year to notch a super-G/downhill double.

Friday's race was run in frigid temperatures (18C) on a course comprised of an upper section using the new Raptor women's speed course -- built for the 2015 World Championships -- and a bottom section on the familiar Birds of Prey.

The hard-charging Svindal looked right at home on the hybrid piste as he notched his seventh podium finish in nine races in Beaver Creek since 2008.


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