Giant slalom in Schladming: ÖSV wound bag hunted 1. World Cup victory

Stefan Brennsteiner With his 33 years, as many cruciate ligament tears as Stockerlplatzen in the World Cup – namely exactly 4. only the place on the top podium was still denied the giant slalom specialist.

At the Home World Cup in Schladming Is the Pinzgauer, where you never know what you get, after the first run for clothing and can hope for his first World Cup victory.

After the first round, Brensteiner, which was carried out on a shortened route because of the weather caps, Only 33 hundredths of a second behind on leader Loic Meillard (SUI).

This opens up all chances for the second run for the veteran, but it is closely to the matter. The Top 7 are not even separated by half a second.

Patrick Feurstein lost 0.74 seconds to Meillard, Manuel Feller was a hundredth of a second slower.

The first round for superstar and series winner was disappointing Marco Odermatt. The Swiss, who won the last three World Cup giant slices, did not make it to the top ten and was already 90 hundredths of a second.

However, it was no different in Schladming a year ago. And then Odermatt started a brilliant catch -up on the Planai and still won.