American skier Bryce Bennett won in Val Gardena, in the third downhill of the Alpine Ski World Cup season, thus creating a sensation.
He reached his first triumph in the World Cup in two minutes, two seconds and 42 hundredths of a second.
This is a guy 201 cm tall and weighing 100 kilos.
Austrian Otmar Striedinger won second place with a gap of 14 hundredths of a second behind Bennett, while third-placed Niels Hintermann had a time of 32 hundredths of a second behind the winner.
Dominik Paris finished in fourth place, Beat Feuz was fifth.
With 195 points, Matthias Mayer leads the downhill standings.
Skiers will ride the giant slalom tomorrow in Alta Badia.
