Steven Nyman won Friday's men's downhill, the American's third World Cup win, all on Val Gardena's Saslong slope.
Nyman clocked a time of 1min 55.89sec to beat Norway's Kjetil Jansrud by 31 hundredths of a second, and Italy's Dominik Paris (1:15).
The 32-year-old United States skier was adding to his wins in Val Gardena in 2006 and, after six injury-blighted years, in 2012.
“I’ve always felt comfortable here from the first day I arrived,” Nyman told fis-ski.com.
“In 2005, I said I like this hill. I could see what I needed to do and I was ready to do it. And I crashed and the next year, I won. And then the next year, I crashed. It treats me well and sometimes it slaps me."
“It was different this year because the snow is so thin, you’re basically feeling the fields underneath the snow.
"It’s rattly the whole way down the hill. And you have to keep driving over that and show it who’s boss, or it will show you who’s boss.”
Jansrud hung on to finish second place and still leads the overall standings from Austria's Marcel Hirscher.
“Hats off to Steven. I always want to win though. When you’re in the start, you try to win. But today is one of those days when you have to admit someone is faster," he said.
Source: AFP