Swiss ski racer Marco Odermatt from Engelberg has taken his 50th World Cup win, competing in an extra downhill race in Val Gardena on Thursday, rescheduled from Beaver Creek.
The 50th win places him equal with retired Italian racer Alberto Tomba and one of only nine people to achieve the feat, four women and five men. Already the most successful male Swiss racer of all time, It also places him just five wins behind countrywoman Vreni Schneider who took 55 wins in her career.
At 28, Odermatt is the youngest of four skiers in the top nine are still active, including all-time greatest American, Mikaela Shiffrin, who is the only racer to win more than 100 competitions, reaching 105 wins earlier this month.
Fellow-American, 41-year-old Lindsey Vonn returned to racing after five years in retirement last year and last week won her first competition in eight years, the St Moritz Downhill, making her the oldest person to win a ski race and taking her total number of victories to 83, including a record 44 downhills.
She's now just three wins behind Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark who held top spot with 86 wins for more than three decades until overtaken by Mikaela Shiffrin a few years ago.
Marcel Hirscher also returned to racing last year, switching from his father's Austrian to his mother's Dutch nationality to compete, but unfortunately his comeback has been hampered by injury. He has 67 wins, the fourth most to date.
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