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| - Austrian Vincent Kriechmayr won Saturday's World Cup super-G as France's Alexis Pinturault made up valuable ground on his two Norwegian rivals in the race for the overall title. It was a sixth World Cup victory for the 28-year-old Kriechmayr, the world silver medallist timing 1min 33.08sec. Switzerland's Mauro Caviezel was second, at 0.05sec, with another Austrian, Matthias Mayer, third (+0.08). "I am very satisfied with my skiing today and being able to win in front of an incredible crowd is simply amazing!" said Kriechmayr. The big winner of the day was Pinturault, who finished fourth, 0.24sec off Kriechmayr's pace to bag 50 points that took him to 948pts overall. Overall leader Aleksander Aamodt Kilde (1,022pts) missed out altogether as he failed to finish the course. Kilde's teammate Henrik Kristoffersen, second in the race for the large crystal globe, came in 22nd in his first-ever super-G race to bag nine points to sit on 957, now just nine ahead of Pinturault, with 10 races left in the season. The Frenchman will now look to further improve his position when he turns his attention to Sunday's alpine combined -- a discipline in which he is reigning world champion -- and Monday's giant slalom, in which he has won four global bronze medals (2015 and 2019 worlds; 2014 and 2018 Olympics). "I will try to continue to forge my links with Hinterstoder!" said Pinturault. Turning to the race, the 28-year-old Courchevel-based skier added: "It wasn't easy to feel good today. "Despite everything, I did a good run. I pushed and took risks." Kilde acknowledged that his own risk-taking had not paid off. "When you take risks, it can happen," he said in reference to the fall, without injury, that ended his podium hopes. "It's not great to have skied out today, but it's part of the game. Sometimes, skiers bomb out, sometimes we're good, sometimes less so." tba/lp/cw
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