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Peter Schröcksnadel did it: the president of the ÖSV returned the Alpine World Cup to Austria in 2025 – Saalbach-Hinterglemm prevailed in a video conference with secret ballot in the first ballot.
5.44 pm, October 03, 2020
Saalbach-Hinterglemm has done it and is From February 4 to 23, 2025, host of the Alpine Ski World Championships for the second time since 1991. This was decided by the Executive Committee of the World Ski Federation (FIS) in a videoconference on Saturday. Those from Salzburg, who had already applied for the 2023 World Cup, this time sat against the competitors Crans Montana (Switzerland) Y Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany) by.
Most recently, Austria hosted the World Ski Championships with Schladming in 2013. The next world championships are in 2021 curtain d’Ampezzo and 2023 in Courchevel-Meribel on stage. Austria is hosting an Alpine World Cup for the tenth time.
The clarity of the result was surprising: The Salzburgers prevailed in the first vote, they received twelve out of 14 votes, one vote went to Switzerland and Germany.. At Hinterglemm, at the foot of the Zwölferkogel, there was a good party: after all the guests had passed a crown test, the distance rules could also be neglected a bit.
“We put a lot of energy and passion into the bid,” he said cheerfully. Bartl Gensbichler, President of the Salzburg State Ski Association and also of the Saalbach-Hinterglemm ski club. “The greater the joy. We efficiently use the time between the originally planned award date and today and refine our concept. However, of course, we are missing valuable preparation time. However, our machinery runs like clockwork and we have proven many times that we work well under pressure. So I am not worried that we will turn the 2025 World Cup into a big ski festival. “
Schröcksnadel: “The circle closes”
ÖSV President Peter Schröcksnadel, who had done a lot for Saalbach in the second en-suite application, thanked all ÖSV and Saalbach employees. “The vote ratio speaks for the fact that we submitted a good application. I think this is a very, very important decision for the whole of Austria,” Schröcksnadel said in an ORF TV interview. You don’t know how Corona’s situation will continue. “But I think a lot will have changed in five years when we have another World Cup in Austria.”
For Schröcksnadel, who recently confirmed that he will no longer run for election in the summer of 2021, things come full circle. “When I started in 1991, it was the first World Championship in Saalbach, now I can stop, that is, have won the World Championship. It is a big step for Austrian tourism and skiing.”
