Liensberger aims at Slalom win at home World Cup in Saalbach!

Liensberger aims at Slalom win at home World Cup in Saalbach!

Saalbach, Österreich - On February 15, 2025, the Alpine World Ski Championships in Saalbach were all about the Austrian athlete Katharina Liensberger. The talented skier had already drawn attention to herself this season with a strong fifth place in the overall ranking of the World Championships. Her appearance in the slalom qualification was particularly remarkable, where she felt the mood of the home fans in the back. Liensberger was optimistic: "I think I have always been stronger in slalom than in the giant slalom. But I just managed to get the consequence into the momentum." Nevertheless, it was disappointing in the giant slalom, where she was the best Austrian to only take the twelfth place and the gap to the new world champion Federica Brignone from Italy was considerable four and a half seconds. They cost their weaknesses at crucial places, which they critically reflected on after the race, as vorarlberg.orf reported.

successful competition and generation change

in the team combination, where Liensberger got into the race with the departure vice world champion Mirjam Puchner, the longed-for precious metal also failed to materialize. After the strong departure from Puchner, who took third place, Liensberger could not hold the placement, so that the duo ended up in fifth place. In the meantime, the Swiss skiers, including Camille Rast, also showed excellent performances and found that maybe a generation change in alpine skiing was imminent. Rast, who had already celebrated impressive success, noted that she could adapt her goals for the next season, and praised the atmosphere in Saalbach: "The Austrian fans are really enthusiastic, and the organization did a great job", as fis-ski.com .