Marco Odermatt gave Switzerland their first World Cup giant slalom win since 2011 on Monday as he swooped through the gates for a crushing win on the snowy slopes of Santa Caterina in the Italian Alps. The event should have taken place on Sunday but relentless snow delayed the action until Monday when the 23-year-old Odermatt made another statement about his form. After a second place at Soelden and a third place at Santa Caterina on Saturday, Odermatt tops the giant slalom rankings and is level first with Alexis Pinturault in the overall World Cup standings after three races. He missed the parallel giant slalom in Austra after testing positive for Covid-19. Switzerland's last World Cup giant slalom win came in March 2011 when the then recent Vancouver Olympic giant slalom champion Carlo Janka won at Kranjska Gora. Swiss fans have been awaiting some kind of break out since the junior World Championships in 2018 where Odermatt won gold in the downhill, combined, giant slalom and super-G, plus the team event. Odermatt set the pace Monday, flying through the 45 gates fastest on the first run before Saturday's winner the Croat Filip Zubic gave him a scare on the second descent. The Swiss held his nerve and eventually prevailed ahead of American Tommy Ford by 0.73sec on the hard-packed piste. Zubic was third just 0.02sec adrift after producing the fastest run of the day to jump from 21st to 3rd on the day, leaving him second to Odermatt in the giant slalom standings and third in the overall. rg/lrb/dmc/td