The record for oldest man to win a World Cup race got another week added on when Didier Cuche outperformed the field in a fog shortened “sprint” at Garmisch Saturday (Jan 28) for his second straight downhill win, his third win of the season and 20th of his career. The finish, with Erik Guay second, reversed the order of last season's World Championship race on an adjoining course. Historically Garmisch has been good to Canadian Guay and that trend held, getting his first podium of the season.  Austria again missed the top spot but had Hannes Reichelt in third. All three had to wait until the 46th skier came down to get comfortable as Bode Miller was dropped back from start 16 to that start position as punishment for being late for the public bib draw. The race start was moved to the super G start due to fog blanketing the top of the course, a move anticipated by weather forecasts and mentioned as a possibility at the Team Captain's meeting the previous night. It was a tight line and the usual impeccable execution that brought Cuche, 37 years-five months, his first win at Garmisch since 2004. While others tried to attack the Kandhar 2 course, missing the line made for a bumpier more difficult track. He took over the lead of the downhill standings from teammate Beat Feuz, the 23rd finisher on the day. Guay ran into trouble when he "booted out" had a boot touch the snow and fell to his hip. "I said 'It's over'," Guay said. "Then my skis hooked up and I stood up and said 'Aw I can probably make that next gate. If you give me that 20 times I probably can't repeat that, but I pulled it off and actually had some pretty good speed coming out. I knew I had to push the rest of the course and stay low, but at the bottom I was pretty surprised (to discover he was winning). Cuche gave credit to his serviceman for "really, really fast skis" and said he knew he needed to be particularly fast on the middle part of the course, which is where he hit the line perfectly and maintained form on the one major jump. Jan Hudec continued to ski strong in a comeback season finishing 12th. Miller was forced to deal with a much beat-up track when he ran late and finished 35th and out of the points. Travis Ganong led the US in 27th place with Marco Sullivan 28th. Erik Fisher just missed points in 32nd. MORE TO COME Gepa photo FIS World Cup Men's Downhill

Rank	Bib	FIS Code	Name	Year	Nation	Total Time	FIS Points
1	20	510030	CUCHE Didier	1974	SUI	1:09.10	0.00
2	13	102263	GUAY Erik	1981	CAN	1:09.37	5.20
3	14	50742	REICHELT Hannes	1980	AUT	1:09.40	5.77
4	11	293006	INNERHOFER Christof	1984	ITA	1:09.49	7.51
4	1	560447	SPORN Andrej	1981	SLO	1:09.49	7.51
6	23	291459	PARIS Dominik	1989	ITA	1:09.53	8.28
7	15	191740	CLAREY Johan	1981	FRA	1:09.54	8.47
8	17	50753	KROELL Klaus	1980	AUT	1:09.60	9.62
9	12	192746	THEAUX Adrien	1984	FRA	1:09.65	10.59
10	9	511139	KUENG Patrick	1984	SUI	1:09.71	11.74
10	8	51327	PUCHNER Joachim	1987	AUT	1:09.71	11.74
12	3	102271	HUDEC Jan	1981	CAN	1:09.74	12.32
13	6	292455	FILL Peter	1982	ITA	1:09.83	14.05
14	25	511529	GISIN Marc	1988	SUI	1:09.85	14.44
15	37	53817	FRANZ Max	1989	AUT	1:09.87	14.82
15	2	192932	FAYED Guillermo	1985	FRA	1:09.87	14.82
17	5	511313	JANKA Carlo	1986	SUI	1:09.89	15.21
18	10	510890	ZURBRIGGEN Silvan	1981	SUI	1:09.99	17.13
19	24	421483	JANSRUD Kjetil	1985	NOR	1:10.01	17.52
20	22	51215	BAUMANN Romed	1986	AUT	1:10.02	17.71
21	36	200379	SANDER Andreas	1989	GER	1:10.14	20.02
22	19	510727	DEFAGO Didier	1977	SUI	1:10.18	20.79
23	46	103271	THOMSEN Benjamin	1987	CAN	1:10.20	21.17
23	18	511383	FEUZ Beat	1987	SUI	1:10.20	21.17
25	50	103385	PRIDY Conrad	1988	CAN	1:10.26	22.33
25	49	510747	GRUENENFELDER Tobias	1977	SUI	1:10.26	22.33
27	34	530874	GANONG Travis	1988	USA	1:10.31	23.29
28	33	533131	SULLIVAN Marco	1980	USA	1:10.32	23.48
29	29	50858	STREITBERGER Georg	1981	AUT	1:10.33	23.67
30	7	510767	HOFFMANN Ambrosi	1977	SUI	1:10.37	24.44
31	21	421328	SVINDAL Aksel Lund	1982	NOR	1:10.43	25.60
32	31	534939	FISHER Erik	1985	USA	1:10.47	26.37
32	26	292514	HEEL Werner	1982	ITA	1:10.47	26.37
34	45	561067	PERKO Rok	1985	SLO	1:10.52	27.33
35	16	532431	MILLER Bode	1977	USA	1:10.54	27.72
36	48	294277	KLOTZ Siegmar	1987	ITA	1:10.56	28.10
37	28	191591	BERTRAND Yannick	1980	FRA	1:10.58	28.49
38	4	501076	OLSSON Hans	1984	SWE	1:10.64	29.64
39	30	51005	SCHEIBER Mario	1983	AUT	1:10.73	31.37
40	35	293550	MARSAGLIA Matteo	1985	ITA	1:10.74	31.57
41	38	500150	JAERBYN Patrik	1969	SWE	1:10.78	32.34
42	44	191964	POISSON David	1982	FRA	1:10.81	32.91
42	40	990081	CASSE Mattia	1990	ITA	1:10.81	32.91
42	32	530939	WEIBRECHT Andrew	1986	USA	1:10.81	32.91
45	43	380292	ZRNCIC-DIM Natko	1986	CRO	1:10.99	36.38
46	39	930024	MAPLE Wiley	1990	USA	1:11.04	37.34
47	42	561087	MARKIC Gasper	1986	SLO	1:11.06	37.73
48	51	561085	KRIZAJ Andrej	1986	SLO	1:11.28	41.96
49	55	660021	DANILOCHKIN Yuri	1991	BLR	1:11.72	50.43
50	52	20267	ESTEVE Kevin	1989	AND	1:11.96	55.05
51	53	531799	FORD Tommy	1989	USA	1:12.79	71.02
52	54	90131	GEORGIEV Georgi	1987	BUL	1:13.03	75.64
53	47	531452	BIESEMEYER Thomas	1989	USA	1:18.73	185.35
Did not finish 1st run
	41	180570	ROMAR Andreas	1989	FIN
	27	201606	KEPPLER Stephan	1983	GER

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