Julia Scheib: “You have to attack, otherwise you’re lost”

The 1.62 meter short Julia Scheib took the chestnuts out of the fire for the red-white-red women with the second best running time in the second giant slalom round in Lienz and prevented a debacle for Ski Austria. The 25-year-old Styrian catapulted herself to fifth place overall in exceptional racer Mikaela Shiffrin’s (USA) 92nd World Cup triumph; with Franziska Gritsch (19th), only one other Austrian made it into the top 30.

The giant slalom is and remains the Achilles heel – despite Scheib’s ray of hope. The 2018 Junior World Champion in this discipline achieved the best result of her World Cup career. You can build on that.

“In the first round I noticed straight away that I didn’t have enough grip. It was brutally difficult. Then we worked on the setup. It’s nice that I succeeded in the attack. I took a risk and it worked,” said Scheib happily. who had already been seventh in Killington (USA) this winter.

The athlete from Deutschlandsberg is a fighter and “stand-up woman” who doesn’t let herself get thrown off track so quickly. In 2015, Scheib suffered a torn cruciate ligament and meniscus in his right knee, and Pfeiffer’s glandular fever prevented him from starting the 2019/20 season.

But that wasn’t enough of the setbacks: another cruciate ligament tear followed at the European Cup in Berchtesgaden in 2021 – this time in the left knee. Four operations and almost 700 days without racing at the highest level took a toll on the mood.

Nevertheless, Scheib never gave up. The word “brake” is not in their vocabulary. “When skiing you need courage. You have to attack, otherwise you’re lost,” is her credo, which Julia lived up to in Lienz.

On Friday (10 a.m. and 1 p.m., ORF 1) the ski world should look rosier for the ÖSV. Things went very well in the slalom recently, on December 21st in Courchevel, Katharina Troupe came third, Katharina Gallhuber came fourth, Franziska Gritsch eleventh, the same as Katharina Huber. Not to forget Katharina Liensberger, who was passed through to 18th place after finishing third in the half. “I will attack,” assured the Vorarlberg native.

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