Ski World Cup, giant slalom
Home gold for Austria-German with a great second run
14.02.2025 – 2:31 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
The first run in the giant slalom was still disappointing for German skiing. But then Anton Grammel opened and caught up with some places. Austria was happy about home gold.
Ski star Marco Odermatt missed his second gold medal at the World Cup in Saalbach-Hinterglemm. The Swiss Super-G world champion had to be content with fourth place in the giant slalom on Zwölferkogel. The Austrian Raphael Haaser surprisingly secured gold. Silver and bronze went to Odermatt’s teammate Thomas Tumler and Loic Meillard. The best German was Anton Grammel in twelve.
Odermatt once again went on the slopes as a big favorite. He recently won the overall giant slalom World Cup three times in a row, plus gold at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing and at the World Cup in France two years ago. This season, too, the 27-year-old has already reached three World Cup victories in his parade discipline. But this time he was left behind.
Haaser, already silver medalist in the Super-G, made another Austrian festival before more than 20,000 spectators. The 27-year-old, who has not yet won a World Cup race, went forward from fifth in the final. Norwegian Timon Haugan, which leads to half -time, fell back to seventh place.
The German starters had only competed with outsider chances. Grammel made ten places well with a courageous drive in the second round. Unlike in the first run, he was “a merciless line,” said the 26-year-old. Fabian Gratz and Jonas Stockinger took the ranks 18 and 26.
Before the closing weekend, the German team continues at the World Cup without a medal. Lena Dürr and Linus Straßer in the slaloms on Saturday and Sunday (9:45 a.m. and 1:15 p.m./ZDF and Eurosport) are among the candidates on the podium.