Saalbach: Austria's Raphael Haaser won gold in the men's giant slalom at the World Ski Championships in Saalbach on Friday, defending champion Marco Odermatt finishing fourth. Haaser, who won ...

Saalbach (Austria) (AFP) – Austria's Raphael Haaser won gold in the men's giant slalom at the World Ski Championships in Saalbach on Friday, defending champion Marco Odermatt finishing fourth.

Haugan negotiated the Schneekristall course in 1min 21.10sec, 0.02sec ahead of Odermatt's Swiss teammate ... just ahead of Austrian Marco Schwarz and French hope Thibaud Favrot.

Austria's Raphael Haaser upstaged defending champion Marco Odermatt and the Swiss men's team to claim world giant slalom gold on home snow in Saalbach on Friday. Haaser, who won silver in last ...

Loïc Meillard, Marco Odermatt and Thomas Tumler meet expectations in the first run of the World Championship giant slalom in Saalbach. The trio are in 2nd, 3rd and 6th place in the intermediate ...

Haugan edged out Loic Meillard of Switzerland by two-hundredths of a second. Defending champion Marco Odermatt was 0.24 seconds behind in third. The Swiss standout is also the reigning Olympic and ...