Norway's Kjetil Jansrud competes during the Men's Alpine Skiing Super-G at the Sochi Winter Olympic Games on Sunday. Photo: CFP

Kjetil Jansrud maintained Norway's stranglehold on the men's ­super-G by winning gold at the Sochi Games on Sunday, while 36-year-old ­American Bode Miller shared a bronze to become the oldest Olympic Alpine skiing medalist.

American Andrew Weibrecht, starting 29th with all the favorites gone, went one better than his third-place finish in Vancouver by winning a surprise silver, 0.30 ­seconds behind Jansrud.

Canada's Jan Hudec finished with the exact same time as ­Miller, 1 minute 18.67 seconds, in the ­second Alpine race of the Games to see a tie for a medal. The women's downhill saw two golds awarded on Wednesday.

"At the start I told myself that I have had a nice Olympics so far but that more was still possible," said Jansrud, who won a bronze in the downhill on February 9.

Jansrud's success was Norway's fourth in a row in the discipline dating back to 2002.

Now retired Kjetil Andre Aamodt began the sequence in Salt Lake City and repeated the feat in Turin in 2006 to become the ­oldest Alpine Olympic champion and medalist at the age of 34 years and 169 days.

Aksel Lund Svindal won in 2010 but finished only seventh on Sunday in a major disappointment for a man who arrived as a likely multiple medalist but has so far failed to get on the podium.

"It could have been double if I didn't mess up the first three gates," said Svindal, who may also have missed out on his best chance of the Games to win gold with only the technical slaloms to come.

"But I messed up and was not good enough and lost a medal on the first three gates. I knew after my run Kjetil could go a lot faster and I'm glad he did."

Miller's bronze was the sixth Olympic medal of his career and he secured it in typical fashion, by the skin of his teeth after risking all on his way down the gleaming Rosa Khutor slope.

The American was 13th out of the start hut and it looked like gold could be a possibility until Jansrud, 21st on the start list, came down to push him out of top spot.

Hudec immediately followed Jansrud down the piste before Weibrecht added a late shock after starting 29th.

"It's one of the most incredible moments of my life," said Weibrecht, who has had a difficult season in the World Cup. "I can't really find words for it."

Hudec was the first Canadian man to medal in Alpine skiing at the Olympic Games since Ed ­Podivinsky's bronze in downhill in 1994.

Reuters - Global Times