Svindal claims back-to-back alpine ski wins in Canada

Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal followed up a downhill triumph with a victory in Sunday's Alpine Ski World Cup men's super-G race at Lake Louise.

It was the eighth career victory on the Canadian piste for Svindal, a two-time world downhill and overall champion who captured Sunday's super-G in 1min 29.30sec.

Reigning Olympic downhill champion Matthias Mayer of Austria was second in 1:29.65, 0.10sec ahead of Italy's Peter Fill, who reached his second podium of the weekend.

Svindal won Saturday's downhill in 1:47.29, edging Fill by just one-hundredth of a second.

Svindal missed almost all of last season after an achilles tendon injury, managing only sixth-places in downhill and super-G at the World Championships.

But Svindal has made up for lost time this weekend on the same Lake Louise layout where he captured his first World Cup victory in a 2005 super-G.

Svindal, 32, also won super-G titles at Lake Louise in 2007 and 2011, took downhill and super-G wins in 2012 and another super-G in 2013.

Mayer, 25, has three career World Cup wins, the most recent in super-G at Saalbach, Austria, last February. His father, Helmut, was the runner-up at the first Olympic super-G race in 1988 at Calgary.

Fill, 33, took his only World Cup victory in a 2008 Lake Louise downhill.