Canada's Erik Guay celebrates on the podium after winning an alpine ski men's World Cup downhill, in Kvitfjell, Norway. (Alessandro Trovati/Associated Press)
Canada's Erik Guay won the fifth World Cup race of his career on one of his best courses to clinch his second downhill win this season, finishing ahead of Frenchman Johan Clarey and Olympic champion Matthias Mayer of Austria in the Norwegian resort of Kvitfjell.
It was the 32-year-old Guay's third career downhill win. He also won downhill earlier this season at the Italian resort of Val Gardena, where the 33-year-old Clarey was third.
Two of Guay's career five wins and four of his 22 podiums have been in Kvitfjell, where there is another super-G scheduled for Sunday. He won that race here four years ago.
Conditions were overcast and a little foggy but unlike Friday's downhill the rain stayed away. Guay had a time of 1 minute, 22.17 seconds to put him .35 ahead of Clarey — who secured a third career podium — and .57 quicker than the 23-year-old Mayer, who celebrated his first career podium in World Cup downhill and only his third overall.
American Travis Ganong, who was third on Friday, narrowly missed out on another podium, finishing .62 back in fourth spot.
"I really thought I could (win), so I pushed a little harder and had a couple mistakes. I was able to make up a lot of time on the bottom and salvage fourth place," said Ganong, who is having good late-season form after a respectable fifth-place finish in the downhill at the Olympics. "It's really fun skiing right now. I'm having a good time and the results are coming."
Olympic super-G champion Kjetil Jansrud of Norway, who tied for the win Friday with Austrian Georg Streitberger, placed fifth.
Overall World Cup leader Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway was tied for sixth with Switzerland's Silvan Zurbriggen. American Bode Miller, a bronze medalist in super-G at the Sochi Olympics last month, was eighth.
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