HSV Red Bull Salzburg athletes also dominate the second Para Ski World Cup stop in Italy
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Even more successful than the start of the Para Ski (a combination of skydiving and skiing) World Cup Series 2022 in the Czech Republic two weeks ago, the athletes from HSV Red Bull Salzburg will continue at the second stop in Italy this weekend.
With five gold medals and three silver medals, the Salzburg parachutists lay further important foundations on their way to once again dominating the World Cup series.
At the second stop of the Para Ski World Cup, which took place in Gallio/Italy from March 4th to 6th, the parachutists from HSV Red Bull Salzburg again proved their absolute top form. The Salzburg athletes already showed top performances in the giant slalom on Friday and thus lay a perfect basis for the parachuting competitions on Saturday and Sunday. Thanks to the optimal conditions, all six jumps could be performed.
Team HSV 1 (Sebastian Graser, Manuel Sulzbacher, Toni Gruber and Magdalena Schenner) won gold ahead of Germany and the Czech Republic. The youngsters from the Salzburg skydiving club (HSV Red Bull Salzburg 2 – Alexander Schöpf, Michael Urban, Bernhard Voglmayr and Sophie Grill) are only almost 3 cm behind third place in the team ranking, but they can be extremely satisfied with fourth place as a team .
In addition to the one in the team classification, Toni Gruber was able to celebrate two more gold medals. With sensational performances, the Sankt Johanner also won the men’s and masters classifications. “I am extremely surprised by this result and I am really happy about it. I just wanted to get my performance up and then I was able to find my way better into the competition jump by jump. Of course it’s crazy that it was enough to win three gold medals,” says Toni Gruber happily and can therefore go into the last World Cup stop on his doorstep in Sankt Johann with good self-confidence. Second place went to his teammate and co-favorite Sebastian Graser, who unfortunately had to bury his chances of victory due to a botched jump. Third place goes to a German, but the other places are followed by HSV Red Bull Salzburg athletes (Michael Urban fourth place, Manuel Sulzbacher fifth place).
Gruber’s performance was actually only topped by that of his young teammate Sophie Grill. The 22-year-old army athlete eclipsed everyone with the best number of points and thus not only won gold in the women’s but also in the juniors’ classification. “I didn’t really expect it at all, and I’m all the happier about it. The conditions were great and the organization was great. I’m very proud of my performance, but above all of that of my team, because we showed more than we expected,” says Sophie Grill, who comes from Puch, happy about her medals.
Thanks to the equally sensational performances of their club colleagues: Magdalena Schenner (silver in the women’s ranking) and Michael Urban (silver in the juniors), these two podiums also shone completely in the colors of HSV Red Bull Salzburg.
Salzburg parachutist approaching the home World Cup in Sankt Johann
With these successes and the necessary self-confidence in their luggage, the successful Salzburg club rightly calculates its chances of winning the overall World Cup medals. The last stop will take place from April 1st to 4th in the Sankt Johann Alpendorf ski area, so the Salzburg skydivers have to impress in front of their home crowd. Since HSV Red Bull Salzburg is also a co-organiser, visiting together with the Snow Space Salzburg ski area and the St. Johann tourism association in Salzburg, the home World Cup is in many ways the absolute highlight of the winter season and a worthy conclusion to the World Cup series for the Salzburg parachutists.
para ski
The competition discipline PARA SKI consists of PARA (derived from “Parachute”) and the alpine giant slalom (SKI). In FIS-regulated ski racing, the aim is to be as fast as possible in two runs and as accurate as possible in six jump runs. The target jump is scored in penalty points, which are awarded depending on the distance to the large target point, with each centimeter deviation being counted as a penalty point. The time in the giant slalom is also converted into points, based on the winning time: the winner of the giant slalom has zero penalty points and the time of those behind is converted into points so that approx. 0.3 seconds gives one point. So 1 second is 3 points. In target jumping, these points correspond exactly to the distance in cm (1cm = one point). Along with time in ski racing, these points are the final result.
Parachute Target Jumping
In skydiving, the aim is to land from a height of around a thousand meters on a target that is just the size of a ten-cent coin.
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