The 30-year-old athlete from SV Unterach was brutally thrown in the Super-G in December 2018 and tore the anterior cruciate ligament, the inner ligament and the meniscus in his left knee. It was the fourth and hopefully last cruciate ligament tear in the career of the “stand-up man” from the Salzkammergut.
Hemetsberger wouldn’t be Hemetsberger if he couldn’t ignore such incidents. The veteran rushes daringly from one adventure to the next. Two years after the accident, he showed the Stelvio his teeth and took 22 as a departure. World Cup points. And this year, too, the Upper Austrian is going into attack mode, with yesterday’s first training session for tomorrow’s departure (11.30 a.m., ORF 1), from a red-white-red perspective, which was quite foamy.
Hemetsberger landed in 57th place – 3.73 seconds behind best time holder Matteo Marsaglia (Ita). Double world champion Vincent Kriechmayr was 48th, his Head brand colleague Matthias Mayer as the best Austrian 14th.
The Gramastettner Kriechmayr has fond memories of Bormio, where Super-Gs are planned on Wednesday and Thursday after the descent: The 30-year-old drove up two second places in December 2020. He would like to wrest a A from the “beast” one day.
Source: Nachrichten
