Faust thick surprise at the Alpine Ski Junior World Championships 2025 in Tarvis. DSV talent Felix Rösle is almost sensational to the departure title – and has ended an eternal German drought phase.
Gold sensation by Felix Rösle! The 20-year-old from SC Sonthofen won a real departure thriller at the Junior World Cup on Thursday. In the shorter and in two rounds, Rösle improved from the third to first place in the second round to first place.
In the end, Rösle was only 0.02 seconds ahead of the Swiss Philipp Kälin and 0.14 seconds ahead of the Austrian Matthias Fernsebner (+0.14). With Simon Widmesser, a second German talent (5th) landed in the top 10, Benno Brandis was 12th, Lukas Krauss 22.
“It was an unusual race in the case of not simple conditions,” Rösle commented on his coup: “There were two passes, it was warm, rained.” Rösle is still paying off something for the Super-G on Saturday. “I’m looking forward to it, I really feel like it. The stick is good for me,” he said. Fingering? Due to the weather, the departure had been driven from the Super-G start.
German downhill dub at the Junior World Cup 1988
A German departure course route ended with Rösles, which has lasted almost 40 years. In 1988 Kaspar Gilgenrainer last won a DSV junior gold in the departure. Gilgenrainer did not have a great career followed by his success. At that time, Andrea Schwarzenberger also triumphed a German among the juniors.
Andreas Sander won the last title at the juniors in 2008 in the Super-G in Formigal in Spain. Incidentally, the best athlete was a certain Marcel Hirscher, who won two titles and subsequently became one of the most formative faces of the alpine skiing.
In 2023 Elina Lipp and Emma Aicher as well as Nicko Palamaras and Luis Vogt provided the youngest German medals at Alpine Ski Junior World Championships, each of which won silver in the team combination.