Norway's Lasse Kjus clinched his first World Cup overall title today, finishing third in the final super-G of the season.
Kjus capped a dominating performance by the home skiers, with Atle Skaardal capturing the super-G title, Kjetil Andre Aamodt winning the race and Ingeborg-Helen Marken taking the women's super-G for her first title."I just tried to do my best. I'm terribly happy that it happened here in Norway," said Kjus, 25, who won Wednesday's final downhill for his fourth victory of the season. "It's so amazing, so many victories in one season."
Kjus earned 60 points to raise his season total to 1,198, 207 more than Austria's Guenther Mader with only two races remaining. Mader picked up 36 points with a seventh-place finish.
Skaardal finished eighth for 32 points and a super-G total of 312. Austria's Hans Knaus, who missed the race because of a cold, followed with 267 points and Kjus finished third with 264.
Aamodt completed the 2,418-yard Olympic course in 1 minute, 33.15 seconds to edge World Cup downhill champion Luc Alphand of France by 0.06 seconds. Kjus was 0.30 seconds back.
"Four winners in a day, I think we all are very happy for today," Aamodt said.
Marken beat overall champion Katja Seizinger of Germany by 0.66 seconds in the final women's super-G.
"I was really keen because I knew that a lot of people came from my hometown," said Marken, a 20-year-old from Buskerud who gave Norway its first women's World Cup victory in four years.
Marken, in her second World Cup season, covered the 2,035-yard course in 1:23.18. Seizinger, who clinched the overall title Wednesday and was already assured of her fourth consecutive super-G title, edged Italy's Isolde Kostner by 0.10 seconds for second place.