Swiss star Marco Odermatt won the Beaver Creek downhill in commanding style on Thursday to notch his third victory in four starts in the young alpine World Cup season geared toward the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics in February.

Odermatt, who failed to finish the first run of the giant slalom at Copper Mountain last week in a rare mistake for him, bounced back with a brilliant win on the Birds of Prey course just a few kilometers further west in the Colorado Rockies.

The 28-year-old four-time reigning World Cup overall champion clocked 1min 29.84sec to finish 30-hundredths of a second ahead of American Ryan Cochran-Siegle, with Norway's Adrian Smiseth Sejersted third, 69-hundredths of a second back.

Odermatt, the four-time defending World Cup overall champion, claimed his 48th World Cup

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