Austria completes first summer training camp

This week, Austria's Nordic Combined athletes started preparing for the Olympic Winter Games in Beijing 2022. At Lake Faak in Carinthia (Southern Austria) the first training group met for the first joint training course.

During jump training in the Villacher Alpenarena, the focus was on the basic technique in order to lay a solid basis for further jump training. The team around head coach Christoph Eugen also completed the necessary fitness training on roller skis.
They collected a lot of kilometers while circumnavigating the Wörthersee as well as on the roller track in the Alpenarena. The program was rounded off with strength and coordination training. But that wasn't all, as head coach Christoph Eugen revealed:

“The boys have been back in individual training since the beginning of May. Now we are happy that the team training has finally started again. (…) In addition to jumping, scooters and strength units, we also take plenty of time during the week for analysis and planning discussions with the athletes in order to prepare for the Olympic season in the best possible way."

While a large part of the team will train in Faak until tomorrow Friday with local hero Thomas Jöbstl, Martin Fritz, team sprint world champion Lukas Greiderer, Mario Seidl and veteran Lukas Klapfer, two “youngsters” will have to go back to school. Double World Champion Johannes Lamparter and Salzburg's Stefan Rettenegger, who joined the first training group for the first time, currently still have to overcome the last school hurdle, the Matura, before they can train with the team again.

Likewise, Franz-Josef Rehrl has not yet started team training. After overcoming a cruciate ligament rupture, the Styrian still has to complete therapy and rehab as well as a month of police training.

Source: Austrian Ski Federation