Liensberger conquers bronze in the World Cup slalom: a gladier fight for precious metal!

Liensberger conquers bronze in the World Cup slalom: a gladier fight for precious metal!

At the Alpine World Ski Championship in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Katharina Liensberger won the bronze medal in slalom in a gripping competition. After a strong first round, in which she showed excellent performance and was only 0.58 seconds behind the leading Camille Rast from Switzerland, she was able to hold her position in the second run. Rast defended her lead and became world champion, while Wendy Holdener won the silver medal with 0.46 seconds behind. Liensberger ended the race to the winner with a gap of 1.32 seconds and thus secured her fifth medal at World Championships, such as laola1.at reported.

In the competition for the title, the competition is strong, while Mikaela Shiffrin (USA) was in third place after the first run, she was unable to convince in the second round and fell back to fifth place. Katharina Treuppe tried to take her chance of a medal, but was only able to take the seventh place after wanting to increase in the second run. The conditions were challenging for some of the athletes, which was reflected in the different achievements. Katharina Gallhuber could not reach the finish line due to a failure in the first run. The level of the edition was high, such as puls24.at .

In a class competition, where every skier had to test her borders, the motto "Hopp or Dropp" fulfilled for some athletes who had to adapt their strategies under the difficult snow conditions. Liensberger, who had already achieved success in the previous world championships, once again demonstrated her class and fought through the audience driven for the medal until the last second.