LENZERHEIDE, Switzerland-
Aksel Lund Svindal won the super-G at the World Cup finals Thursday, while Bode Miller captured the season title in the discipline.
Miller finished tied for fourth to give him 304 super-G points for the season, well ahead of newly-crowned downhill champion Didier Cuche of Switzerland.
Miller won the super-G title in 2005, when he also became the first American man in 22 years to claim the World Cup overall title. He was mathematically eliminated Wednesday from the race for the overall crown.
Svindal, chasing Benjamin Raich of Austria for the overall title, clocked a winning time of 1:17.94 on the 1.24-mile Silvano Beltrametti course. Svindal also won the season’s final downhill on Wednesday.
Raich, an all-around skier who prefers the technical races, finished a strong second in 1:18.07 to maintain a three-point lead over Svindal with two races remaining.
Erik Guay of Canada was third in 1:18.29.
Fritz Strobl, the 2002 Olympic downhill champion, ended his career by skiing down the slope in a Mozart costume complete with wig. The Austrian finished last, nearly a minute off the pace, after slowing to receive congratulations from staff and coaches on the course.
