He could make history: will Odermatt break four World Cup records this winter?

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Since the Kvitfjell Super-G last Sunday it has been confirmed: Marco Odermatt will win the overall World Cup for the third time in a row. The record man in this division is the Austrian Marcel Hirscher (34), who won the big ball eight times in a row (2012 to 2019).

With an excellent final sprint of the season, Odermatt, the athlete of the century from the canton of Nidwalden, was able to achieve figures that even the great Hirscher could only dream of. In the category of World Cup victories in one season, Odermatt was level with Hirscher (2017/18), his compatriot Hermann Maier (51, 2000/01) and the Swede Ingemar Stenmark (67, 1978/79) with 13 successes. winter . Odermatt has achieved ten successes this season.

With the three-time Swiss Athlete of the Year expected to compete in seven more events up to and including the World Cup final in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria (five in his flagship discipline, giant slalom), there is much to indicate that he will be the sole No. 1 in this move up men’s rankings. American ski queen Mikaela Shifffrin holds the women’s record with 17 wins in 2018/19.

Your own points record is shaky

In the season podiums category, Odermatt equaled Hermann Maier’s record (season 99/2000) last year with 22 podiums. Since the Olympic giant slalom champion and two-time world champion has been on the podium 17 times in the current World Cup winter, he could overtake the “Herminator” in this special classification on March 24.

Odermatt Maier (2000 points in the winter of 1999/2000) had already conquered the men’s world points record last March with 2042 points. The 26-year-old currently has 1,602 points to his name. In plain language, this means: At best, Odermatt could reach 2302 this year. But he couldn’t break Tina Maze’s cross-gender record. The Slovenian collected 2,414 points in 2012/13.

A record lead is created

But Buochser could go down in history as the man who won the World Cup by the largest margin. “Herminator” Maier made the biggest difference yet 23 years ago when he won the duel for the big crystal with a lead of 743 points.

Odermatt is currently 918 points ahead of the ailing Frenchman Cyprien Sarrazin (calf injury). Manuel Feller is third, 933 points behind. And if Odermatt were to secure the small downhill, super-G and giant slalom balls in addition to the big ball, it would amount to a masterpiece that only two giants have achieved before: the Valais Pirmin Zurbriggen (61, 1986/87) and Hermann Maier 1999/2000 and 2000/01.

Source : Blick