Austria's Vincent Kriechmayr bagged gold in the men's super-G at the world ski championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo on Thursday to improve on his silver medal showing two years ago. Kriechmayr timed 1min 19.41sec down the 2km-long Vertigine course, finishing 0.07sec ahead of ex-teammate Romed Baumann, who now races for Germany afer changing allegiance before the 2019/20 season following his failure to make the Austrian team. France's Alexis Pinturault took a shock bronze medal (+0.38), with Italy's Dominik Paris, the defending world champion in the discipline, in fifth (+0.55), a fine showing as he continues to make his comeback from a serious knee injury in Kitzbuehel last year. lp/td