The Swiss Beat Feuz was proclaimed Olympic downhill champion by winning the queen event of alpine skiing at the Beijing 2022 Games on Monday, which was held on the demanding Yanqing track, in which Frenchman Johan Clarey captured the silver medal – with 41 years – and the Austrian Matthias Mayer, the bronze.
Feuz, 34, winner of the last four editions of the World Cup of the discipline and world champion in front of his fans in St. Moritz 2017, covered the 3,152 meters of the colorful ‘Rock’ track -starting at 2,179 meters of altitude and a drop of 894- in one minute, 42 seconds and 69 hundredths, one tenth less than Clarey, who, at 41, became the oldest Olympic medalist in alpine skiing history.
