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Austrian Mayer wins men's downhill at Olympics

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IANS Rosa Khutor (Russia)

Austrian Matthias Mayer won the Olympic men's downhill gold at the Winter Olympics here Sunday.

The 23-year-old, also a super-G expert, clocked a winning time of two minutes and 6.23 seconds and Italian Christof Innerhofer took the silver at just six-hundredths of a second, reports Xinhua.

Norway's Kjetil Jansrud got the bronze a further 0.04 seconds slower with teammate and World Champion Aksel Lund Svindal fourth.

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First Published: Feb 09 2014 | 2:54 PM IST

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