2021/22 Austrian Snowboard, Freestyle and Freeski Team announced

Last week the Austrian Ski Association announced their Snowboard, Freestyle and Freeski squads for the 2020/21 World Cup season, with an impressive mix of veterans - including Olympic medallists, world champions and crystal globe winners - as well as up-and-comers ready to hit the slopes once we return to competition action next winter.

Foremost amongst the snowboard team is certainly Anna Gasser, as the 29-year-old was the season’s top rider on both the slopestyle and Park & Pipe overall final rankings winning both crystal globes by the end of 2020/21 campaign.

On the men’s side it’s snowboard cross star Alessandro Haemmerle leading the way, after the 27-year-old wrapped up his third-straight crystal globe winning season in 2020/21 with a gutsy victory at the season-ender in Veysonnaz.

Perhaps strongest amongst all the Austrian snowboard squads is the alpine team, which boast the likes of five-time world champion Benny Karl, as well as Andreas Prommegger, Julia Dujmovits  and Claudia Riegler amongst its ranks.

See the full OSV snowboard team nominations HERE.

Over on the Freestyle and Freeski side of things, the typically strong Austrian ski cross team will be looking for some redemption next season after a difficult 2020/21 campaign in which only Katrin Ofner and Johannes  Rohrweck finished in the top-10 on either the women’s or men’s sides.

However, with a fully healthy Andrea Limbacher (the Kreischberg 2015 world champion) also representing the women, and the men’s side boasting Adam Kappacher, Daniel Traxler and Sandro Seiberhofer - three skiers who should be entering the primes of the careers, a rebound season should be in order.

The Freeski team will be lead by big air specialist Lara Wolf and Lukas Muellauer, with up-and-comers like Hannes Rudiger and 2020 big air and slopestyle Junior World Champion Matej Svancer looking to make some noise next season.

See the full OSV ski cross team nominations HERE.

See the full OSV freeski nominations HERE.