Salzburg's Ski World Cup 2025: A winter festival of superlatives is coming!

Salzburg's Ski World Cup 2025: A winter festival of superlatives is coming!

The SalzburgerLand Tourismus Gesellschaft (SLTG) gave the starting signal for the 2024/25 winter season in Vienna on Monday evening. Around 250 guests took part in an atmospheric event in the Palais Wertheim, including prominent winter sports athletes such as Annemarie Moser-Pröll and Felix Gottwald. The event offered exciting insights into the upcoming highlights, in particular the Alpine Ski World Championships in Saalbach Hinterglemm, which will take place in February 2025. Leo Bauernberger, Managing Director of the SLTG, says that the event offers an opportunity to present the strengths of the Salzburger Land in the areas of winter sports, culture and cuisine, as also stated in another report salzburgerland.com is emphasized.

The World Ski Championships in Saalbach Hinterglemm is not only an important sporting highlight, but is also accompanied by a specially conceived musical, “Skiverliebt”, which will premiere on February 1, 2025. There is great anticipation for the major event, especially since the best athletes from around 75 nations will be at the start, including Austria's local stars such as Vincent Kriechmayr and Mikaela Shiffrin. The event is accompanied by the motto #skicrazy and promises to be a highly emotional event that offers both spectators and athletes unforgettable moments. In addition, the ski offering in the region will be further enhanced by the possibility of watching the competitions directly from the slopes, reports ots.at.

An unforgettable winter sports festival

In total, there will be space for up to 15,000 fans in the finish area, while the fan mile in the center of Hinterglemm can be reached. The World Ski Championships not only offers sporting highlights, but also an opportunity for winter sports enthusiasts and fans to exchange ideas in a unique atmosphere. All eleven medal decisions take place on the Zwölferkogel and promise to be a ski festival of superlatives. With its approximately 20,000 guest beds and an excellent ski network, Saalbach-Hinterglemm once again proves its suitability as a venue for major events and invites ski enthusiasts from all over the world to experience the fascination of winter sports up close.