Canadian skier Cameron Alexander takes home bronze in the men's downhill alpine ski race in Bormio, Italy.
Canada 's Cameron Alexander earned World Cup bronze in men's downhill on Saturday at the host venue for the 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics. This is the North Vancouver, B.C., native’s fourth career podium and second year in a row finishing third in Bormio, Italy . Alexander, who won Friday’s training, was sixth out of the gate and stood in second until Switzerland’s Alexis Monney, the eventual winner, came down 13 racers later. Alexander finished 0.
72 seconds behind Monney, to push Italian skier Mattia Casse off the podium by seven hundredths of a second — much to the disappointment of the passionate local fans. Two other Canadian men raced the Stelvio, with Toronto’s James Crawford coming in 17th and Jeffrey Read of Canmore, Alta., placing 34th, missing out on scoring World Cup points by just 0.14 of a second. Monney claimed his first World Cup victory in a downhill after a rare mistake from his lauded teammate Marco Odermatt. It appeared as if Franjo Van Allmen, fourth out of the gate, was set to triumph after the big names failed to beat his run down the famed Stelvio course in Bormio. But Monney, who started 19th, put down an even bolder run to finish 0.24 seconds ahead of his compatriot in a Swiss one-two. Monney had never been on a World Cup podium before and had only two top-10 finishes to his name — 10th in Wengen in 2023 and eighth in Kitzbuhel last January
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