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Tyrolean native Romed Baumann returned the favor with silver in the Super-G with his critics.
«A German won a medal for Germany. My time as an Austrian, at least as a skier, is over, ”said Romed Baumann in an interview with SRF. A few months after marrying his German wife in April 2019, the 35-year-old made a change of nation and thus clapped his hands on Thursday in a DSV suit.
When Baumann was still the bogeyman
The satisfaction must have been great, as can be seen in the words of the winner Vincent Kriechmayr: “He was often the bogeyman of the country and he got very fat. That’s why I’m very happy for him. “Before the 2020 departure in Kitzbühel (where he grew up) he was insulted like Judas on the way to visit the gondola.
“As an Austrian, I wouldn’t have started today,” Baumann said visibly excited. The veteran still remembers how he was separated from the ÖSV team. Then he called Felix Neureuther. Because he needed the number of the DSV trainer Tobias Mayrhofer to offer him the change of nationality. Baumann then reacted quite perplexed.
“Then he clarified everything if this was possible even in terms of budget.” After the approval of the Austrian Ski Association, for which Baumann is grateful, everything ran its course. He was able to take his FIS points with him and thus maintain his starting position.
Baumann’s top positions go back a few years
Apparently, the change of nationality released forces in him. In Kitzbühel, 3 weeks ago, he finished fifth and seventh on the descent. In Super-G, he was in the top ten twice this season.
Baumann last took the podium in the Super-G on November 28, 2010 (third at Lake Louise). His last podium at the World Cup was on February 28, 2015 (second in Garmisch’s descent). And his greatest successes in major events are also distant. In 2011, Baumann won bronze in the Austrian team competition and in 2013 in the super combination.
For DSV, it was the first World Championship medal since Neureuther’s bronze medal in slalom in 2017 in St. Moritz. In the men’s Super-G so far, the last Olympic champion Markus Wasmeier had only finished third on the World Cup podium in Crans-Montana in 1987.
Legend:
Great joy at the end
Romed Baumann.
Keystone
