Alpine Skiing: Jansrud Wins Home Downhill

KVITFJELL, Norway, , (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 25th Feb, 2017 ) - Norway's Kjetil Jansrud won Saturday's downhill on home snow in Kvitfjell to consolidate his position at the top of the World Cup standings in the discipline.

Jansrud won with a time of 1min 47.63sec, beating Italy's Peter Fill by 0.08sec with Beat Feuz of Switzerland 0.14 off the pace in third. The 31-year-old has now been a winner six times on the course used for the Lillehammer 1994 Winter Olympics, twice in downhill and four times in super-G.

He overtook Fill in the overall standings in the discipline after coming third on Friday in the first of two downhill races at the venue to replace the cancelled event from Lake Louise in November.

Slovenian Bostjan Kline claimed his maiden World Cup win on Friday, 0.19sec ahead of Olympic downhill champion Matthias Mayer of Austria with Jansrud one-hundredth of a second behind in third. Jansrud, who has 19 World Cup victories, is 33 points ahead of Fill and 136 clear of another Italian, Dominik Paris, ahead of the final downhill of the season at Aspen on March 15.