SESTRIERE, Italy, March 11 (UPI) -- Austria's Hermann Maier won the final World Cup super-G race of the season Thursday in Italy and increased his lead in the overall standings.
Maier finished with a time of 1.18:73. Countrymen Stephan Eberharter and Christoph Gruber were second and third.
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Maier has 1,265 points, 42 ahead of Eberharter. Next in the standings are Benjamin Raich of Austria and Bode Miller of the United States.
The American missed a gate and failed to finish Thursday's race.
Two races remain in the World Cup schedule -- a giant slalom Saturday and a slalom Sunday.
