Austrian Vincent Kriechmayr won world downhill gold on Sunday, becoming the first skier in 16 years, and just the third racer, to claim a speed double at the same championships. Kriechmayr, who won Thursday's super-G in Cortina d'Ampezzo, kicked off the downhill in bib number one, timing 1min 37.79sec down the testing 2.6km-long Vertigine course. Andreas Sander claimed a third championship silver for Germany, at just one-hundredth of a second off Kriechmayr, while Swiss favourite Beat Feuz claimed bronze (+0.18). lp/nr