Bryce Bennett makes another podium in resurgence for U.S. downhill
American Bryce Bennett returned to the podium Saturday, two days after earning his first World Cup win in two years.
Bennett placed third in a downhill in Val Gardena, Italy, six tenths behind Italian winner Dominik Paris and 16 hundredths behind runner-up Aleksander Aamodt Kilde of Norway.
Bennett, 31, became the first U.S. man to make multiple World Cup downhill podiums in one season since Steven Nyman in 2015-16. And Bennett did it in the first two downhills of the season.
Bennett came into Val Gardena with a best World Cup finish of seventh in the two years since his last win, which was also in Val Gardena.
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He called the 2022-23 season “a complete disaster” after placing 35th in the downhill standings.
In two Olympics, his best finish was 16th.
Nyman and fellow World Cup winner Travis Ganong both retired after last season, leaving Bennett as the lone active American man who had won a World Cup downhill.
The men's Alpine World Cup continues with giant slaloms on Sunday and Monday in Alta Badia, Italy.
