Marco Odermatt has won gold in the men’s super-G at the Alpine skiing world championships as the Swiss skier justified his status as the big pre-race favorite.

Marco Odermatt opened a World Championships where he could be the defining skier by winning the super-G by the largest margin in any speed race at worlds in 34 years. Odermatt, the 27-year-old Swiss Lion King,

Swiss favourite Marco Odermatt lived up to his billing with a dominant run to add men's super-G gold to his career collection at the Alpine World Ski Championships in Saalbach on Friday.