Switzerland - Alpine Skiing

VAL D'ISERE, France (Reuters) - Austria, often outclassed by Alpine rivals Switzerland since the northern winter began, struck back by placing three men on the podium of a World Cup super-combined event on Friday.The traditionally dominant nation had been struggling lately to ...

Switzerland's Janka wins GS; 1st man since '07 with 3 consecutive World Cup victoriesSwitzerland's Carlo Janka wrapped up quite a weekend by winning a giant slalom Sunday to become the first man in more than 2 1/2 years with three consecutive World ...

Switzerland's Didier Cuche wins season-opening World Cup downhill at Lake LouiseDidier Cuche of Switzerland won the season-opening World Cup downhill Saturday.Cuche, third in last season's overall standings, earned his 11th World Cup victory. He was followed by Italy's Werner Heel in 1:50.75 ...

Switzerland's Didier Cuche won the first World Cup men's giant slalom race here on Sunday with an overall time of 2mins 21.45seconds.The 35-year-old, the reigning world Super-G champion, was third after the first run, but a decisive performance on the second gave ...

American Lindsey Vonn secured the women's World Cup downhill title for the second year running on Saturday despite a modest 12th place finish in the Bansko downhill behind Austrian winner Andrea Fischbacher.After the ninth place finish of her closest downhill rival, Switzerland's ...

Switzerland's Fabienne Suter wins women's World Cup downhill; Lindsey Vonn ties for 3rdFabienne Suter of Switzerland won a women's World Cup downhill Friday, and overall leader Lindsey Vonn tied for third.Suter won the race in 1 minute, 45.68 seconds. Andrea Fischbacher of ...

Dominique Gisin of Switzerland won the women's World Cup downhill here on Saturday ahead of American Lindsey Vonn and Anja Paerson of Sweden.Gisin, who also won last week's downhill at Zauchensee, finished in 1min 16.98sec, 0.15sec ahead of Vonn with Paerson a ...

Lara Gut of Switzerland became the youngest ever winner of a women's World Cup race here on Saturday when the 17-year-old triumphed in a super-G race.She finished ahead of compatriot Fabienne Suter with Italy's Nadia Fanchini, who won the season's opening super-G ...

Italy's Werner Heel won the men's super-G here on Friday for his second World Cup success.Heel timed one minute 35.04 seconds to see off Switzerland's Didier Defago and Patrik Jaerbyn of Sweden by .43 and .45s respectively to add this to his ...

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Topic: Switzerland

Austria strike back with super-combined treble

Janka wins GS for 3rd World Cup victory in a row

Canada's Manuel Osborne-Paradis wins super-G

Swiss skier Cuche wins opening slalom title

Vonn and Fischbacher downhill winners in Bansko

Swiss Suter wins women's World Cup downhill

Swiss skier Gisin wins Cortina downhill

Youth triumphs as Gut wins World Cup super-G

Skier Heel leaves his imprint at Val Gardena

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