LAKE LOUISE, Alta. - Norway's Kjetil Jansrud won the season-opening men's World Cup downhill while Canada's Manny Osborne-Paradis and Guillermo Fayed of France tied for second.
Jansrud posted a winning time of one minute 50.20 seconds. Osborne-Paradis of North Vancouver, B.C., and Fayed had identical times of 1:50.34.
Two of three training runs for the World Cup in Lake Louise, Alta., were cancelled due to weather. Jansrud and Osborne-Paradis were first and second respectively in the only training run for the race.
It's the first victory at Lake Louise for Jansrud, who won the Olympic gold medal in super-G and bronze in downhill this year.
Osborne-Paradis earned his first World Cup medal since 2010.
