Austria's Matthias Fernsebner bangs the podium at Junior World Cup!

Austria's Matthias Fernsebner bangs the podium at Junior World Cup!

A big day for Austria's young ski tenth! During the Alpine Junior World Championship in Tarvis, Matthias Fernsebner won the first medal for his country. The 19-year-old from SC Martin near Lofer secured the bronze medal in an exciting race. Despite the challenging weather conditions that had to shorten the departure route, the television sector managed to place itself behind the superior winner Felix Rösle from Germany and the Swiss Philipp Kälin (+0.02). With a deficit of only 0.14 seconds, he was able to cheer, as the Laola1 reported.

In the first round, television showed a solid performance and was in fourth place. In the second run, he took advantage of his impressive lubricating skills and was able to leave his team -mate Matteo Haas, who then ended fourth with a behind 24 hundredths of a second. Unfortunately, Florian Strauss, the third Austrian participant, also had no success in the first round and missed the top 30. Nevertheless, the joy of the precious metal at ÖSV young chief Harald Kirchmair was great: "Matthias was able to call up his absolute top performance today", so his words According to Kronen Zeitung .

Successful heroes from all over the world

But not only in skiing there was gratifying news for the Austrians. In Sigulda around 1750 kilometers away, 20-year-old Noah Kallan grabbed Silver at the Junior Championships. Despite his own doubts about the course, he demonstrated that he belongs to the absolute tip after recently winning bronze at the Junior World Cup in St. Moritz. Gold went to his compatriot Fabio Zauser, who won with only seven hundredths of a second.