Speed ​​weekend in Garmisch: Austrians in attack mode

The ÖSV women strive for the podium on the Kandahar descent in Garmisch.

Last weekend in Cortina Ricarda Haaser Driven past six hundredths of a second past the podium. The 31-year-old is also shaped in Bavaria. In the second departure training of Garmisch, the Tyrolean landed in third place behind Sofia Goggia (ITA) ahead of Breezy Johnson (USA), ex aequo with ÖSV colleague Christina Ager.

While her brother Raphael in Kitzbühel at the Super-G celebrated a successful comeback on Friday with second place, the sister’s shape curve is also pointing up.

In the training sessions for the Kandahar descent on Saturday (10.15 a.m./ORF 1) and the Super-G on Sunday (11 a.m./ORF 1), the slopes presented completely differently. “It was brutally slow on Thursday. Today the speed was where it belongs in the departure, ”said Christina Ager. Colleague Nina Ortlieb also liked the route better: “Today in the morning everyone woke up and thought: ‘Phew, you can also be pleasantly surprised.”

At the speed, the challenge also increased, as Haaser noticed. “The waves are really toxic because there is simply a lot more pace inside. But it’s fun, it’s a challenge, it is dark, so a descent actually belongs.

Not according to plan

While Sofia Goggia, who had traveled with a cortina success in her luggage, demonstrated with the best time in the final training session that she could also be expected in Garmisch, the two-time winner of the season Cornelia Hütter did not go according to plan. With a gap of more than two seconds, she ranked 24th. “I didn’t get the line that I actually wanted to drive. Now I know where I don’t have to drive. It is time to definitely do it better tomorrow, ”said the Styrian, who wants more and more nine after places.

Garmisch in the heart

Stephanie Venier, who drove to 14th place in training on Friday with almost two seconds behind, spoke of a “approach. Now I have remembered that it is very, very dark, even if the weather is nice. In Garmisch, things get a lot. ”But for the Tyrolean it is a good floor. “With Garmisch I have a deep connection – my first Stockerl (2017), my first victory (2019). Garmisch will always stay in my heart, that’s something special, ”said the 31-year-old. “It is like a home race for me.”

At the last discontinued of the ski races in Bavaria 2022, Cornelia Hütter was on the podium twice.