Benjamin Karl celebrates Hattrick - Carinthian championship!

Benjamin Karl celebrates Hattrick - Carinthian championship!

Simonhöhe, Österreich - Benjamin Karl, the Olympic champion in the snowboard, celebrated an impressive hat trick with his triumphant victory at the Austrian championship in the parallel riene slalom on February 8 on the Simonhöhe in Carinthia. In a gripping finale, the 38-year-old Lower Austrian defeated Andreas Prommegger in Salzburg and secured the championship title. "As always, I had to go full throttle against Andi to win," said the winner after the competition, as dolomitenstadt.at . Carinthian Alexander Payer finished third and defeated the Styrian Christoph Karner in the small final.

A day later, Karl expanded his success by also winning the parallel slalom and continued his impressive series. He prevailed again against Christoph Karner and thus secured his 22nd World Cup success as a whole. With his victory in Rogla on February 12, where he overtook the Italian Aaron March in the final, Karl further expanded his leadership in the overall and RTL World Cup, so The press . Karl said enthusiastically: "That I did the hat trick is a dream. It was so scarce, luck was on my side."

further successes and challenges

Sabine Schöffmann, also a remarkable athlete, secured third place in Rogla and returned to Carinthia with this success. In the second knockout round she defeated Claudia Riegler, Salzburg, but failed in the semi-finals. In the small finale, however, she demonstrated her strength and secured the place on the podium by only beating the German top athlete Ramona Hofmeister by 0.05 seconds.