Ski jumper Emely Torazza experienced the most beautiful day of her career at the World Cup in Willingen. In front of full ranks, she jumped into the World Cup points for the second time, but for the first time for Germany. What has happened to her since her change (back) from Switzerland and how important Katharina Schmid is for her.
Emely Torazza truly not many ski jumping clichés: her birthplace Weimar alone did not suggest that she would become a ski jumper. It was only in summer 2011, at least eleven, that she exchanged the narrow cross-country skiing against the long ski jumps skiing.
“But I didn’t really inspire cross-country skiing. But we always watched a lot of winter sports in the family.
Wildhaus is a youth center where the legendary Walter Steiner, after the largest hill is named there, or the double double Olympic champion Simon Ammann grew up. Anyone who is familiar with ski jumping or at least geography will know that this small place is located in the canton of Sankt Gallen, i.e. in Switzerland.
Torazza started for the Swiss Confederation until spring 2024 before applying for a change of nation. Since this had to be approved by the World Ski Association, it was only subsequently incorporated into the course group 1b of the German Ski Association (DSV). Although the Torazza family moved to Switzerland early, daughter Emely lived there temporarily in the recent past. From summer 2019 she was also housed there as a student of the renowned ski gymnasium Stams in the Austrian state of Tyrol.
After her passed Matura last year, she wanted to take the next step in her sport and therefore also moved to Oberstdorf – and is happy about this step. “I have so many ways to work on myself. The conditions in Oberstdorf are absolutely top,” she reported in an interview sport.de at the World Cup in Willingen.
It is precisely this station that is a real breakthrough on its way to the top of the world: With her 19th place on Saturday, she not only achieved World Cup points for the second time, but also for the first time for the DSV and thus also her best World Cup Result. “I don’t even know what to say, except: I’m just happy,” she beamed.
Last but not least, her mood has to do with her new environment, as she emphasized: “The mood in the team is very positive. Everyone is there for the other and you celebrate each other for the results.”
Torazza has great appreciation for teammates Schmid
Anyone who has Emely Torazza talks to her and follows on social media, however, finds that one of her teammates plays a very special role: Katharina Schmid. “I appreciate that Katha received me so well. She is the positivity in person,” enthused the Wahl-Oberstdorfer about the Upper Oberstdorfer and did not want to stop: “As a athlete and man, she is a very important one Supplements for me.
And that is no coincidence. From his own experience, Schmid knows very well what it is like to get into a team as a newcomer and will not tire of emphasizing this himself. So what the first vice world champion Ulrike Gräßler or the first Olympic champion Carina Vogt was for her is now for Torazza.
Contrary to her expectations, it was very good with the hustle and bustle around the last home World Cup of winter. “I wasn’t that nervous because I was distracted so often and many people want something from you,” she reported.
The fact that her shape curve and results are so good is no longer possible, she said: “Above all, I have worked a lot on me in particular that I just get more relaxed.”
Since the beginning of the year, she has won all four jumps in the second-class Inter-Continental Cup in series-and that on ski jumps in Falun and Bischofshofen, which are not only completely different, but also have their very own characteristics. “After the first Coc victory, it did ‘click’ and from then on everything went really well,” she said in retrospect.
But Torazza currently does not fully know where your path leads in the rest of the season. Next, the COC in Eisenerz (Austria) is coming up again on a completely different hill than now the largest big hill in the world in Willingen. What happens afterwards, “we then see according to my results,” she said calmly.
At the DSV you would certainly not mind if she could do something similar to the last ski jumper who had changed from Switzerland: Gianina Ernst (today’s Krucker) turned away from it in the summer of 2013, whether there was a lack of interest from the Swiss Association and surprised with space Two at their World Cup debut the elite-at just 14 years. Already the following year she took part in the Olympic Games, which are also the declared long -distance goal of Emely Torazza. At least this one ski jumping cliché would only like to fulfill it.