Franjo von Allmen: The new downhill king of the Ski World Cup in Saalbach!

Franjo von Allmen: The new downhill king of the Ski World Cup in Saalbach!

In a gripping race at the Ski World Cup in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, the 23-year-old Swiss Franjo von Allmen finally made the big breakthrough and secured the title of the departure world champion with an outstanding time of 1: 40.68 minutes. He prevailed against the strong competition and left the Austrian star Vincent Kriechmayr with only 0.24 second behind the silver square. Bronze secured the Swiss Alexis Monney, who finished 0.31 seconds after the winner, as the reported the press . This is further proof that Switzerland remains the dominant nation in the speed competitions.

The Austrian team can still be proud of their achievements. With this silver medal for Kriechmayr, this is already part of the fourth medal for the ÖSV team at this World Cup, where Stephanie Venier Venier Gold and Raphael Haaser Silver in the Super-G and Mirjam Puchner silver previously won. Despite these successes, the other Austrians, such as Daniel Hemetsberger on the seventh and Stefan Babinsky in ninth place, were not able to intervene in the medal fight. Kriechmayr expressed himself very positively after the race: "There were a few little things, I didn't implement everything, but it was a very good trip", and emphasized that after his knee injury he was well returned to Wengen, so 5min .