Skiing

Guenther Mader of Austria won the opening super-G ski race of the season at Val D’Isere, France and increased his World Cup overall lead.

Norway’s Kjetil Andre Aamodt, who raced after one of his team’s coaches died Saturday night, finished second. Tommy Moe of Missoula, Mont., was third.

Mader covered the 7,216-foot course with a drop of 2,034 feet in 1 minute, 28.25 seconds. Aamodt finished in 1:28.42, Moe 1:28.61.

It was Mader’s 10th victory of his career. He won the giant slalom at Park City, Utah, last month and has been in the top five in three different types of races this season: slalom, giant slalom and super-G.

Mader increased his season World Cup total to 316 points after five races. Aamodt is second at 285.

Pernilla Wiberg of Sweden scored her first World Cup slalom victory of the season with a powerful second run at Veysonnas, Switzerland.

Wiberg, the defending Olympic giant slalom champion, came out of ninth place and held off first-run leader Morena Gallizio of Italy by .78 seconds, finishing with a total time of 1 minute, 26.16 seconds. Gallizio’s runner-up finish was the best of her career. Wiberg erased a .52-second first-run deficit for the victory.