KVITFJELL, Norway (AP) — Italian veteran Dominik Paris beat Olympic champion Franjo von Allmen on Saturday to win the men’s downhill at the World Cup finals, a week after Marco Odermatt had locked up the season title in the discipline.

Now a record five-time downhill winner in Kvitfjell, Paris showed his class on the Olympiabakken course again as he finished 0.19 seconds ahead of von Allmen. Austria’s Vincent Kriechmayr was 0.60 behind in third.

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