World Cup return

Change in the ÖSV team ahead of the slalom classic

There will be a change in the ÖSV slalom team in Wengen: Christian Hirschbühl (left), Dominik Raschner, Marco Schwarz, Adrian Pertl and Michael Matt (from left to right) will be at the start.(Bild: GEPA pictures)

One of the absolute classics of this year's slalom winter takes place in Wengen on Sunday. In the run-up to the event, there has now been a "substitution" in the ÖSV team. A youngster has to make way for a veteran - at least for the time being.

Christian Hirschbühl can breathe a sigh of relief! After his failures in the slaloms in Levi and Gurgl, the 34-year-old was recently left out of the ÖSV squad. However, the police athlete will be back in action at the classic race in Wengen. "I beat Joshua Sturm in the internal qualification on Thursday," reveals the man from Lauterach, who will be making his sixth start in the ski Mecca in the Bernese Oberland.

High point and low point
Wengen - a place that is very special for Hirschbühl. In January 2017, Hirschbühl achieved his best slalom result in the World Cup to date with fourth place. In January 2022 - just under two months after celebrating his only World Cup victory to date at the Flexenrace in Zürs - he had an unfortunate crash in the Swiss ski resort on the second run and injured his ankle so badly that he had to sit out for almost three years.