Snowboarder Ramona Hofmeister has won the parallel slalom in Bad Gastein/Austria. In the final run, the 21-year-old won her first World Cup victory in this discipline 2.04 seconds ahead of the Russian Jekaterina Tudegeschewa. Selina Jörg failed in the quarter-finals and finished fifth.
Amelie Kober missed the quarter-finals in her second World Cup participation after her fracture of the ankle joint in November. The 30-year-old two-time Olympic medal winner, however, at least reached the knockout round of the best 16 and secured 15th place. at least half the Olympic norm. Anke Wöhrer (9th), formerly second in 2014, Cheyenne Loch (13th) and Melanie Hochreiter (14th) also fulfilled half the norm.
The competition was less successful from the men’s point of view. In Bad Gastein, only Patrick Bussler and Alexander Bergmann, who had already won the World Cup, reached the knockout rounds in the victory of the Russian Dimitri Loginow. Bussler finished fifth as the best German, Bergmann retired in the last sixteen and finished twelfth. Stefan Baumeister (21st) again followed the norm for Pyeongchang.
Snowboarders must prove that they are among the top eight or two of the top fifteen in the World Cup to qualify for the South Korean Winter Games (9th place). till 25. February). However, their participation depends on whether they are among the best 32 in the world rankings. The next competition is scheduled for 20. A parallel giant slalom will take place in Rogla, Slovenia, on January 1.