US EditionFranzoni celebrates a career first with super-G win in Wengen
- On Jan 16, 2026, Giovanni Franzoni won his first World Cup super-G at Wengen, opening first with bib one and posting a benchmark time of one minute 45.19 seconds.
- Giovanni Franzoni started first and produced a near-perfect run reaching 87 mph, negotiating Canadian Corner and Kernen S cleaner than rivals after leading both downhill training sessions.
- Race results highlighted Austria's Stefan Babinsky second, 0.35 slower, Franjo von Allmen third, 0.37 behind, while Italian teammates Paris, Bosca, Abbruzzese recorded DNFs and Ryan Cochran-Siegle was sixth.
- The result positions Giovanni Franzoni among Italy's leaders for the men's Olympic Alpine team in Bormio, following his second career podium after Val Gardena last month.
- With the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics three weeks away and opening ceremony Feb. 6, Marco Odermatt, Swiss skier , leads super-G standings while Marco Schwarz, Austrian skier, did not start.
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At last it arrived. As beautiful as it was sudden. Giovanni Franzoni won the SuperG of Wengen, winning his first success in the World Cup. On the historic Helvetic slopes, the last Italian to triumph had been Christof Innerhofer in the downhill of 2013, thirteen years ago. A fast interrupted by Franzoni's Exploit, which is now hoped to become the dawn of a new champion of blue skiing. The 24-year-old Manerba del Garda came down with the chest nu…
The young Italian won his first World Cup super-G in Wengen this Friday.
Giovanni Franzoni was already the fastest in the trainings, now he is driving out the best time in the Super-G race with the start number 1. Marco Odermatt is the fourth to miss the podium.
Alpine skiing-Franzoni celebrates a career first with super-G win in Wengen
WENGEN, Switzerland, Jan 16 - Giovanni Franzoni gave Olympic hosts Italy a first men's World Cup win of the Alpine ski season with his own career first victory in a super-G on Wengen's famed Lauberhorn piste on Friday. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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