Bronze medal in skydiving for HSV Red Bull Salzburg at the World Cup in Bled
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At the first completed stop of the Skydiving World Cup, held this weekend in Bled/Slovenia, Holten the athletes from HSV Red Bull Salzburg won a medal in the parachute target jump.
Despite the difficult conditions, the Salzburg team was able to demonstrate their good form. Sophie Grill won a bronze medal in the junior category.
After the extremely successful military world championships, from which the army athletes of HSV Red Bull Salzburg traveled home with a few world championship titles in their luggage, the Salzburg skydiving club will continue from July 8th to 10th with the World Cup in target jumping in Slovenia. Since the first planned stop in Rijeka could not be completed and evaluated due to the strong wind, it was now necessary to catch up at the second stop of the World Cup season, which took place in Bled this weekend.
A total of 38 teams were at the start, HSV Red Bull Salzburg identified three of them. Despite the extremely difficult conditions due to the strong north wind and changeable thermals, Sophie Grill was able to secure the bronze medal in a very strong field of juniors behind two German boys and an excellent 4th place in the overall women’s ranking with a deviation of only 18 cm after eight jumps. “I was really looking forward to the World Cup in Bled. Thanks to our great team dynamics, I was able to achieve my personal best. I’m super happy with my first World Cup podium,” says the 23-year-old from Puchner, more than satisfied with her first podium finish in a summer World Cup. Their teammates Michael Urban and Joachim Knauss took 6th and 11th place in the junior classification.
Their teammates Marina Kücher, Julia Schosser and Magdalena Schenner had to struggle even more with the difficult conditions, but were able to hold their own with places 7, 8 and 10 in the top 10 for women. Christina Graml came in 29th.
The men also had to contend with the thermals and the bad weather. The newly crowned military world champion Sebastian Graser, like his teammate Michael Löberbauer, took 16th place in the extremely strong men’s field with a total deviation of 13cm. The other Salzburg men jumped to rank 48 (Manuel Sulzbacher), rank 75 (Michael Urban), rank 96 (Ivaylo Delev), rank 99 (Joachim Knauss), rank 117 (Josef Auernigg), rank 147 (Alexander Schopf) and rank 151 (Christian Irausek).
Thanks to the strong lines, the team HSV Red Bull Salzburg I (Ivo Delev, Michael Löberbauer, Sebastian Graser, Julia Schosser and Manuel Sulzbacher) came 11th in the team ranking, 23rd place for the HSV Red Bull Salzburg II team ( Josef Auernigg, Sophie Grill, Magdalena Schenner, Christina Graml and Marina Kücher), as well as 33rd place for the team HSV Red Bull Salzburg lll (Alexander Schopf, Michael Urban, Joachim Knauss, Christian Irausek and Danielle Marquez Ferroni).
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HSV Red Bull Salzburg
07/10/2022