It's done: Firiegeller gets the big ball

It was March 1, 1997, when Roland Filehner made his World Cup debut at the tender age of 16. Exactly 23 years later, he is now celebrating the greatest success of his career: in the Canadian Blue Mountain on Sunday, he was able to afford to be eliminated in the round of XNUMX in the parallel giant slalom, so that at the end of the day he could still be certain that he was to be able to name the overall World Cup winner from now on. In doing so, he crowned his dream season: last weekend he won the giant slalom classification for the first time and secured his fourth crystal ball. Broken the spell With 2 races to go, Firiegelr can no longer take the big ball. In doing so, he also broke a spell: he had ended up in the ungrateful second place 5 times in the past, and now he can finally take the trophy home with him.

“This is the greatest success of my career,” he is quoted on the website of the Italian Winter Sports Federation. “This trophy means a lot to me. I made my World Cup debut 1 years ago on March 23st, and today my 3-year-old son Florian took part in his first race. It makes me proud to have achieved a result like a role model like Gustav Thöni once did.”

“This is the greatest success of my career.” Roland Fischller Fischnapper, who celebrated a total of 3 victories this year and raced onto the podium two more times, still has a big goal in mind in the remaining World Cups in Livigno and Winterberg: “I also want the slalom ball. Andreas Promegger (currently in first place) is in good shape. But in Livigno I have the home advantage.” Coratti races onto the podium Edwin Coratti is one of the fastest in parallel giant slalom. © Pentaphoto

While Filehner appeared in 11th place in Sunday's race, another South Tyrolean came into the limelight: Edwin Coratti finished in third place. The Vinschger snowboarder achieved his second podium finish of the season after winning the race in Rogla at the beginning of January. The victory in Blue Mountain went to the Russian Dmitry Loginov, who prevailed in the final against the German Stefan Baumeister. Parallel giant slalom in Blue Mountain (CAN) Men Pos Name Country 1. Dmitry Loginov RUS 2. Stefan Baumeister GER 3. Edwin Coratti ITA/Langtaufers 4. Robert Burns USA 5. Igor Sluev RUS 11. Roland Fischller ITA/Villnöß 14. Mirco Felicetti ITA 20. Maurizio Bormolini ITA 27. Daniele Bagozza ITA/St. Ulrich 38. Aaron March ITA/Schabs Women Pos Name Country 1. Ramona Theresia Hofmeister GER 2. Sofia Nadyrshina RUS 3. Selina Jörg GER 4. Sabine Schoffmann TUE 5. Milena Bykova RUS 21. Nadia Ochner ITA/Burgstall

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It's done: Firiegeller gets the big ball

Roland Filehner will not forget this day as long as he lives: On Sunday, March 1, 2020, the 39-year-old parallel snowboarder won the overall World Cup for the first time in his career.

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