The Sochi 2014 Olympic downhill gold medallist from Austria registered a time of 1 min 11.25sec to claim the fourth World Cup victory of his career.

It was his first since fracturing his sixth and seventh thoracic vertebra in a downhill crash in Italian resort Val Gardena in December 2015.

"It was a really cool super-G, a great course," Mayer told AFP.

"It is fast, and makes you work.

"I just tried to express myself fully.

"That's what you need to do here."

Italy’s Christof Innerhofer was 0.09 seconds behind in the runners-up spot, while Switzerland’s Beat Feuz was 0.44 seconds off the pace in third.

Norway’s Aleksander Aamodt Kilde came fourth, while compatriot Kjetil Jansrud finished down in ninth as his bid for a record-equalling fourth-straight super-G win fell short.

Jansrud was looking to draw level with Austria’s Hermann Maier, who set the record in February 1998.

Despite failing to manage the feat, the reigning Olympic super-G champion remains top of the discipline standings with 329 points.

Italy’s Dominik Paris, sixth today, is second with 192 points and followed by Kilde with 189.

Overall World Cup leader Marcel Hirscher of Austria finished 24^th today and now has 980 points in his quest for a sixth consecutive crystal globe.

Action in Kitzbühel is due to continue tomorrow with the downhill.

A women’s downhill is also scheduled to take place tomorrow in Garmisch Partenkirchen in Germany.