Kitzbühel: Canada’s Jack Crawford earns first career win at holy grail of ski racing

• Crawford, 27, wins world's most famous downhill race
• Switzerland's Monney takes second, Odermatt sixth

Canada's James Crawford scorched to a maiden World Cup victory in the prestigious Kitzbuhel downhill on Saturday in a race thankfully spared the spate of serious crashes that marred the super-G.

Crawford, with just four podium places to his name in seven seasons on the circuit, laid down a near-perfect run to clock 1min 53.64sec on the challenging 3.3km-long Streif course on the Hahnenkamm mountain overlooking the upmarket Austrian resort.