Austrian Anton Steiner, 26, posted the first...
Austrian Anton Steiner, 26, posted the first victory of his 11-year skiing career, winning a World Cup downhill race at Morzine, France.
In snapping countrymen Peter Wirnsberger’s string of four consecutive World Cup victories, Steiner finished 7/100ths of a second faster than Switzerland’s Gustav Oehrli and 8/100ths ahead of Wirnsberger.
The leading American, Bill Johnson, the 1984 Olympic gold medalist, finished 10th. Mike Brown of Vail, Colo. was 18th, and Andy Chambers of Jackson, Wyo., 22nd.
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