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Cuche storms to record fifth Kitzbuehel downhill win
Jan 21, 2012, 11:49 GMT
Kitzbuehel, Austria - Didier Cuche powered to his third successive downhill World Cup victory at Kitzbuehel for a record fifth win on the spectacular Streif in a shortened run Saturday.
The 37-year-old Swiss veteran, who this week announced his retirement from the World Cup circuit at the end of the season, made it a swansong for the record books at the blue riband event.
In heavy snowfall and fog, Cuche clocked one minute 13.28 seconds, beating Austrians Romed Baumann by 0.24 seconds and Klaus Kroell by 0.30 seconds for his 19th World Cup win.
Cuche has now won four of the last five downhills in Kitzbuehel after triumphing in 2008, 2010 and 2011, with his first victory in 1998.
He now holds the sole record for downhill victories at Kitzbuehel, bettering the record of four wins he tied with Austrian great Franz Klammer. Klammer was also the only previous skier to win a hat-trick of three in a row at Kitzbuehel, between 1975 and 1977.
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