Date: 2-15 February Venue: Val d'Isere, France
Coverage: Ski Sunday, BBC Two/online, Sunday 8 February, 1630-1700 GMT
 Cuche won by a comfortable 0.99 seconds
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Swizerland's Didier Cuche clinched his first World Ski Championships gold medal with victory in the super-G.
He finished in a time of one minute 19.41, 0.99 seconds ahead of Italy's Peter Fill, with Norwegian Aksel Lund Svindal third, 1.02 seconds back.
It was a gruelling course in Val d'Isere in France which saw 20 starters fail to complete the race.
Briton Dougie Crawford, in his first World Championships, finished in a respectable 28th place.
Cuche, 34, had not been in the best form this season, recording only one podium finish on the World Cup circuit.
But the veteran skier tore down the treacherous Face de Bellevarde course to perfection to win gold.
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606: DEBATE
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Cuche had struggled to perform on the World Championships' stage and had previously won only a bronze in a giant slalom in Are, Sweden, in 2007.
He celebrated in his trademark ski flip style, ski flip, kicking his right ski end over end through the air before catching it upright with his right hand.
This season's World Cup super-G leader Benjamin Raich of Austria finished in fifth, 1.15sec off the pace.
American Bode Miller finished a disappointing 12th, 2.43 seconds adrift, and bemoaned the state of the course.
He said: "It was a steep icy pitch.
"There was not a whole lot of attack out there. There was a lot of slide on the turns to slow down.
"It's tough to see that at a World Championships and be such a decisive factor. It should be everyone skiing at the maximum of their ability and see who wins."
The in-form Ivica Kostelic pulled of the race citing a bad back while American Ted Ligety lost a ski and skidded for 200m on his back before crashing into the safety netting.
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