Winter Sports

Daniel Mahrer of Switzerland capped two outstanding weeks of racing at Aspen, Colo., by winning the final men’s World Cup downhill ski race this season.

Mahrer, with two victories and a second-place finish in the three downhills held this month, fought his way through tight turns on the bottom half of the course and beat teammate William Besse by 33-hundredths of a second.

Mahrer, 30, was timed in 1 minute 41.91 seconds, the fastest recorded on this course. Besse, 24, finished in 1:42.24. Olympic gold medalist Patrick Ortlieb of Austria was third in 1:42.28.

American AJ Kitt was eighth in 1:43.15, but Kitt was able to hang onto third place in the final downhill standings.