Ski World Cup 2025: This is how Austria's team fights for the gold medal!

Ski World Cup 2025: This is how Austria's team fights for the gold medal!

In an exciting start to the 2025 skiing championship in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Katharina Liensberger caused a sensation after successfully completing the first round in the slalom with the start number one. "A successful first round that I can build on. I got into the rhythm," said the Carinthian after her run, who shows her in optimal shape. Liensberger, who already won in Cortina d’Ampezzo Gold at the last World Championships 2021, presented with impressive self -confidence and used the support of the audience to the fullest. Meanwhile, Katharina Huber had a bitter setback with a deficit of 2.94 seconds and Katharina Gallhuber completely resigned, such as vienna.at reported.

exciting team combination in view

The competition on Tuesday, February 11th, will be broadcast by Eurosport 1 on Free TV and available in the live stream to Discovery+. The top favorites include the teams from the USA with the freshly elected world champion Breezy Johnson and Mikaela Shiffrin as well as the Austrian team with Mirjam Puchner and Katharina Liensberger. In this new, team combination, teams consist of an experienced downhill and a slalom specialist, whereby the total times are added together, such as Eurosport explained.

The event promises a lot of tension through an innovative format in which each nation can register up to four teams. The descendants are placed based on their placements in the world rankings, while the slalom runners start in reverse order of their departure time. This exciting concept emphasizes the teams even more and lets the viewers experience the dynamics and the thrill of the competition up close. The list of participants includes some of the best athletes in the world, including the German duo Emma Aicher and Lena Dürr, who also have hopes for front places.