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Aksel Lund Svindal increased his overall World Cup lead with his third career win in the Val Gardena Super-G.

The Norwegian finished ahead of Canada's Jan Hudec and Adrien Theaux of France.

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Bright sunshine early in the day at the FIS super-G World Cup event at Gardena, but the weather would close later in to leave fog on top of the mountain.

Aksel Lund Svindal clocked 1 minute, 35.82 seconds in a flawless run on the Saslong course to match his wins here in 2009 and last year.

It was the Norwegian's 24th career win and his third this season, having also won back-to-back speed races in Beaver Creek, Colorado, earlier this month.

Jan Hudec of Canada finished second, 0.58 seconds behind, and Adrien Theaux of France was third, 0.91 back.

With wins worth 100 points each, Svindal moved 125 points ahead of Austrian rival Marcel Hirscher, who does not usually race super-G, in the overall standings. Ted Ligety of the United States remained third, 191 points back, after skiing off course on the top section.

With fog on the top and flat light the rest of the way down, seven of the top 30 starters did not finish and two others were disqualified for missing the final gate.

Matteo Marsaglia, an Italian who finished second last year, had an ugly fall midway down after failing to land a jump and went barreling through a gate head first then got twisted around as he slid down the mountain. But he got up and appeared to avoid serious injury.

Svindal also moves to the top of the super-G standings, 91 points ahead of Patrick Kueng of Switzerland, who went off course midway down his run.