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Just like the snow conditions at the Zagreb women’s slalom on Sunday, meaning wet and salty, you must pay your respects to Katharina Liensberger. It was not foreseeable that she, who knew how to shine with two third places (Levi) and a second (Semmering) in this year’s world slalom race, would once again climb the podium as runner-up and leave behind calibers like Michelle Gisin or Mikaela Shiffrin. state. That she was only 0.05 seconds behind the winner Petra Vlhova (in Semmering it was only 0.11 seconds in Gisin),
It once again underlines Liensberger’s very hot streak, which could mean that she will soon be posing for the mandatory winner photo from the top.
The rise of Feldkirch’s technique, which debuted at the World Cup in 2016, was made possible by a clever “small-step policy”, as the “Tiroler Tageszeitung” called it. It got better with each season, a look at the slalom World Cup ranking makes it clear: if Liensberger finished 44th here in 2016/17, he dropped to 14 the following year and 3 the year before, and this, although he missed preparatory training and the season opener in Sölden due to a material dispute with the ÖSV. Seen like this, ÖSV can be happy to have Liensberger back as a potential winner in the women’s team. The only thing that could stop the 23-year-old would be a blow to the wood. Unfortunately everything was there.
