Alpine skiing: Kriechmayr joins Miller and Maier with golden double

Alpine Skiing - FIS Alpine World Ski Championships - Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy - February 14, 2021 Austria's Vincent Kriechmayr in action during the men's downhill REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (Reuters) - Austria's Vincent Kriechmayr won Sunday's showcase men's downhill by a hundredth of a second, the slimmest of margins, at the Alpine skiing world championships to complete a rare speed double on Italian snow.

The 29-year-old, who took gold in the men's super-G on Thursday, became only the third male skier after American Bode Miller (in 2005) and Austria's Hermann Maier (1999) to win both speed races at the same championships.