Anna Gasser misses medal in slopestyle - bitter disappointment!

Anna Gasser misses medal in slopestyle - bitter disappointment!

At the Snowboard World Championship in the picturesque Swiss Engadine, Carinthian Anna Gasser fought for a medal on Friday in slopestyle, but missed it very narrowly and landed in fifth place. They separated only 2.84 points from the podium, while the New Zealand Olympic champion Zoi Sadowski Synnott secured the title with impressive 90.15 points, followed by the Japanese women Kokomo Murase and Reira Iwabuchi, who took the other medal places with 87.02 and 83.55 points. According to oe24.at was the failed medal-goal Athlete who is shaped by emotional challenges in her career and is regularly scratched past medals.

While Gasser showed a strong performance in the first round of 80.71 points and was in third place in the meantime, she was unable to buy in the decisive second run and plunged shortly before the finish. "This is bitter because I am always close in the slopestyle. Unfortunately, only the medals at the World Cup," said Gasser disappointed in an Interview with The press . This was Gasser's first Slopestyle World Cup in ten years in which she could not get a medal. In addition to her, the second Austrian participant, Hanna Karrer, also cut out disappointingly and had already failed in qualification.

Next challenge: Big Air

The impressive athlete still has the opportunity to prove herself in the Big Air, her parade discipline, in which she starts as a defending champion. Gasser is convinced that the top 5 from the slopestyle will also play at the top of the Big Air. Your next chance of a medal is already around the corner, while the pressure is increasing to meet your own demands.