Ski World Cup in Saalbach: Top favorites are ready for the giant slalom drama!

Ski World Cup in Saalbach: Top favorites are ready for the giant slalom drama!

Saalbach, Österreich - In Saalbach, the 2025 ski World Cup is opened with the exciting giant slalom of women! The best drivers in the world start on Thursday at 9:45 a.m. The race is led by the Norwegian Thea Louise Stjernesund, followed by stars like Sara Hector, Zrinka Ljutic and Federica Brignone. The leader in the giant slalom World Cup, Alice Robinson, goes into the race as fifth, closely followed by Lara Gut-Behrami. Austria's hopeful Julia Scheib will go into the race with the number nine and is currently number one in Austria in this discipline, such as "https://www.laola1.at/de/Red/wintersport/ski-alpin/ski-wm-2025/ski-alpin-die-die-fuer-wm--wm-der-frauen/" target = "_ blank"> laola1.at reported. There are a total of 109 runners at the start.

But the slalom also has another highlight in the ski season with the Nightrace in Flachau! The first round begins on Tuesday, from 6 p.m. German Lena Dürr will open the race, followed by the American sensation Mikaela Shiffrin and Slovakian Petra Vlhova. In this competition format, eight Austrians will start, including the talented Katharina Liensberger, who is the first to start the slalom from the ÖSV team with start number eight. Her teammates Gallhuber and Huber go into the race with the numbers ten and eleven, while Katharina troops and other drivers will try to qualify for the second run. ski1.at has released the start list and the excitement could hardly be higher!