Snowboarding Triumph
Crosser Jakob Dusek celebrates a home victory in Montafon!
What a triumph: Jakob Dusek clinched victory at the Snowboard Cross World Cup in Montafon with a spectacular final maneuver!
The 29-year-old Lower Austrian and Olympic bronze medalist from Livigno was in fourth place at the finish of Sunday’s final, but managed to overtake all his competitors and celebrated his sixth World Cup victory overall. Incidentally, Dusek won all four races starting from the round of 16. Two-time Olympic champion Alessandro Hämmerle finished fifth after winning the third-place race.
“It was incredible, I’m so happy it worked out,” said a jubilant Dusek, referring to his spectacular overtaking maneuver. “I was a bit behind in the grand final, but then I got such great momentum into the last turn... just awesome.” He managed, as in the previous runs, to maintain his speed in the lower section. Dusek won ahead of Germany’s Leon Ulbricht and France’s Aidan Chollet.
Perfect World Championship dress rehearsal for Dusek
The World Championships will take place on this course next year; for Dusek, it was a perfect World Championship dress rehearsal. “Now I know how Izzy (Hämmerle, ed.) feels when he wins at home. The World Championships are here next year, and I’m looking forward to that.”
The women’s title went to Switzerland’s Sina Siegenthaler, ahead of Olympic champion Josie Baff of Australia and Britain’s Charlotte Bankes. The latter took the World Cup lead. Pia Zerkhold, the only qualified Austrian, finished twelfth.
Hämmerle Wins the Third-Place Match
For the two-time Olympic champion, Sunday’s result was “only” a victory inthe third-place match. Hämmerle narrowly edged out his opponent in the round of 16 in a photo finish because, confident of victory, he had sat up a bit too early. With a second-place finish in the quarterfinals, he advanced safely to the semifinals, where he fell behind right from the start. As a result, the Vorarlberg native—who had already won five times on his home course—could only reach the small final, just as he did last year. His theoretical chance at the overall World Cup title is now gone.
“I wanted to pull off a magic move at the start, and that cost me my rhythm. After the first turn, those three were just in my way, and then I just couldn’t find a gap,” explained Hämmerle, who was sandwiched between two Frenchmen in the semifinals. “I could already see the rehab ahead of me if I went through with this. The young guys were racing with knives between their teeth; I was fired up for the small final and thought: I’m going to show you guys.” He was happy for Dusek too: “Wonderful.”
His other teammates, David Pickl and Lukas Pachner, were eliminated in the round of 16.
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