A young Norwegian shows off his talent in Obereggen

It is a (still) unknown name, but Steen Olsen is well known to insiders: Last March, the youngster won his first European Cup slalom at the European Cup final on the Reiteralm, and he has now immediately struck again at the first European Cup slalom of the new season. Steen Olsen is a name to remember, as it has been so often in Obereggen, where people like Andre Myhrer, Giuliano Razzoli, Manfred Pranger and Reinfried Herbst have triumphed in the recent past. After the first round, Alexander Steen Olsen was in second place behind the Frenchman Theo Letitre. Because the half-time leader Letitre only achieved the 27th running time and slipped back to fifth place, Steen Olsen was able to celebrate. In the end he was more than half a second faster than the second-placed German Anton Tremmel, second in the European Cup slalom rankings last year. Third place was shared by the World Cup experienced Albert Popov from Bulgaria and Victor Muffat-Jeandet from France. Muffat-Jeandet is currently number 14 in the FIS world rankings and was therefore the strongest athlete in Obereggen on paper. His good form was underlined by the Spaniard Joaquim Salarich, who came 15th in the first World Cup slalom of the season in Val d'Isere on Sunday: He finished 25th with start number 8, three hundredths of a second ahead of the Swiss Noel von Gruenigen, son of the former Giant slalom superstar Michael von Gruenigen. The American George Steffey improved from 25th to 13th place with the fastest time in the second round. The Slovenian Tijan Marovt finished a good 47th with the high start number 16, proof that the Maierlpiste withstood the unusually high temperatures - even overnight. The Maierlpiste had to endure a huge program today. 106 athletes started in the first run, but only 58 of them finished, which underlines the difficulty of the slope, which is up to 55 percent steep. The piste team around OK boss Eduard “Edi” Pichler obviously did a good job. Kastlunger's best Azzurro The best Azzurro today was 22-year-old Tobias Kastlunger from Enneberg in eleventh place. After the first run he was ninth. As the second-best Azzurro, 25-year-old Hans Vaccari from Pontebba (Friuli) also made it into the top 20: with the fourth-best running time in the second round, he improved from 23rd to 18th. Federico Liberatore was 27th. That's it for the Azzurri in the top 30. The 23-year-old Matteo Canins from St. Kassian, who had achieved a promising 51th place in the first run with start number 24, was eliminated in the lower section of the second run. European Cup Slalom in Obereggen 1. Alexander Stand Olsen (NOR) 1.28,65:XNUMX minutes 2. Anton Tremmel (GER) +0,55 3. Albert Popov (BUL) +0,83 3. Victor Muffat-Jeandet (FRA) +0,83 5. Theo Letitre (FRA) +0,84 6. David Ketterer (GER) +0,90 7. Fabian Himmelsbach (GER) +0,91 8. Joaquim Salarich (ESP) +1,13 9. Noel von Gruenigen (SUI) +1,16 10. Marc Rochat (SUI) +1,17 11. Tobias Kastlunger (ITA/Enneberg) +1,24 18. Hans Vaccari (ITA) +1,88

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A young Norwegian shows off his talent in Obereggen

The 20-year-old Norwegian Alexander Steen Olsen won the European Cup slalom in Obereggen.

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