Switzerland's Didier Cuche heads to a victory in the mens' Super G on Sunday. Cuche won despite spending the weekend in a dispute with ski authorities. (Alessandro Trovati/Associated Press)

Didier Cuche criticized race officials after winning a World Cup super-G Sunday in Kvitfjell, Norway, a day after he was fined by the International Ski Federation for a dispute with a referee over a jump.

The 36-year-old Swiss held off two Austrians to complete the Olympiabakken course in one minute 33.05 seconds. Klaus Kroell was second, 0.30 seconds behind, with Joachim Puchner 0.33 seconds back.

World downhill champion Erik Guay of Mont-Tremblant, Que., was the top Canadian, finishing 11th in 1:34. Calgary's Jan Hudec was 21st in 1:34.58.

The win moved Cuche into the discipline standings ahead of injured Austrian Georg Streitberger.

It was a remarkable recovery for Cuche after the FIS said Saturday that it planned to fine him $5,400 US for threatening the referee and issue a written warning for unsportsmanlike behaviour.

"This is the first win of my career that I can't enjoy," Cuche said. "I've hardly slept the last few nights and it was really hard to focus."

According to FIS, Cuche telephoned race director Gunter Hujara on Thursday evening to complain about a dangerous jump in Saturday's downhill and said: "If you don't take the jump down and anything happens, I will not hesitate to attack you in public."

Cuche, however, said the referee overreacted. As a member of the FIS Athletes Commission, the defending World Cup downhill champion said he called Hujara to reiterate the concerns of several racers over a potentially dangerous jump at the top of course.

"He wasn't prepared to do anything," Cuche told The Associated Press. "I told him that if anything happened at that jump, he couldn't expect me not to say I had told him before the race what could happen.

"He completely flipped out and said I was attacking him and threatening him and I said: 'No, I'm not, I'm just telling you that if something happens I'm going to say that I told you.' "

Cuche resigned from the commission Saturday, arguing it was pointless for him to speak out on behalf of his fellow skiers if the governing body ignored their concerns.

"I was really sad yesterday, not because of my seventh place [in the downhill], but because of the way the FIS and Gunter Hujara are acting with me," he said.

Cuche said the events of recent days have made him reconsider his future in the sport. He said he would postpone his decision until after next week's World Cup final in Lenzerheide, Switzerland.

"I'm almost turning 37, I'm not a kid any more, and if Gunter just wants to scream at me every time I say something then I'm in the wrong place," he said.

Cuche also is in the hunt for the crystal globe in the downhill, where he is a close second behind Saturday's winner, Michael Walchhofer of Austria. Guay, 29, is also looking to end his season on a positive note in Switzerland.

"I had a pretty good feeling on my skis," he said. "I think I was a little bit unlucky with the light. I lost some time in the middle of the course. There's two races to go. I would love to finish on a good note."