Downhill racer Craig Branch has produced his second personal best of the season, finishing in 31st place in the super G in Val Gardena, Italy.
The Perisher Blue skier was on track for a top 30 place – and valuable World Cup points – but blew his chances with a poor third section of the course, where he was only the 48th fastest.
Branch finished in 33rd place in the downhill in Beaver Creek, Colorado, two weeks ago, also a personal best at the time.
Swiss skier Didier Cuche, the reigning World Cup downhill champion, took the super G gold medal from US champion Bode Miller.
Just four hundredths of a second separated the three men on the podium, with Cuche recording a time of one minute 36.62 seconds, US skier Bode Miller .02 behind and Marco Buechel of Liechtenstein another two hundredths behind in the bronze medal position.
Branch was 2.58 seconds off the pace on 1:39.20.
He will have the opportunity to crack the critical top 30 mark tonight in the Val Gardena downhill.