The 26-year-old was not distracted by the warm weather, the strong wind or the leafy slope and won with half a second ahead of Mikaela Shiffrin. World champion Katharina Liensberger was already 2.11 seconds behind in third place.
In race one, Vlhova made perfect use of starting number one to gain a respectable advantage, which she didn’t give up in the second either. And that although Shiffrin, who was able to start again after her corona infection, put down a strong and deliberate second run. Liensberger’s deficit was explained by a serious blunder at the beginning of the second run, where the Vorarlberg woman lifted it after a heavy blow caused by the slopes. With anger in her stomach, however, the Vorarlberg woman mastered the rest of the slope and even made it onto the podium.
Katharina Gallhuber went to an excellent sixth place – as was the case recently in Lienz. In the final, with a solid drive from 13th place, she improved by seven places and became the second best Austrian. Katharina Truppe took 16th place (+3.90 seconds), Katharina Huber came 22nd, while Chiara Mair and Marie-Therese Sporer slipped and failed in the second round. There were also no World Cup points for the Tyrolean Bernadette Lorenz, who was eliminated in the first run.
The 23-year-old Canadian Alison “Ali” Nullmeyer, who – apparently unimpressed by the weather and the slopes – finished fifth in the finals with the best time and thus achieved her best result in the Ski World Cup.
Source: Nachrichten
