Team Austria closes Bad Gastein with a home win
Jan 15, 2025·Snowboard Alpine
It was a thrilling night of action on the VISA FIS Snowboard Alpine World Cup tour as the legendary Bad Gastein provided the setting for a mixed team parallel race. It was the first of two team events on this season’s World Cup calendar as Bad Gastein hosted a World Cup event for the 25th consecutive year.
Austria had four entries in the field but only the top-ranked team of Andreas Prommegger and Sabine Payer (AUT) made it through to the semifinals. The powerful duo put together solid runs to cruise towards the top of the podium in front of the cheering home crowd. There were 4000 fans in attendance over the two days.
It was a bounce back day for Payer who was knocked out in the quarterfinals by eventual winner Ramona Theresia Hofmeister (GER) yesterday. Payer beat Hofmeister this time around as they went head-to-head in the big final.
The duo won the mixed team event at Bad Gastein last season. The pair won two of three team events last season.
It was a rewarding few days in Bad Gastein for Prommegger. He took second in the individual parallel slalom event on Tuesday. A result that left him exhausted for the team event on Wednesday.
It was another good result in the bounce back for Ramona Theresia Hofmeister (GER) as she and Stefan Baumeister (GER) teamed up for second place. The German duo advanced to the final after Switzerland 2 were disqualified after Dario Caviezel (SUI) missed a gate in the semifinals. It was the 50th career World Cup podium for Hofmeister.
The Switzerland 2 team of Caviezel and Zogg (SUI) then settled for fourth place in the small final. Their Swiss teammates Gian Casanova and Flurina Neva Baetschi (SUI) took out their countrymen to snag the last place on the podium.
It was the second career podium for Casanova after winning the team event in Winterberg 2022. It is also the second career World Cup podium for the 21-year-old Baetschi after her third-place finish in Davos earlier this season.
Rounding out the top five was the Austrian pair of Alexander Payer and Claudia Riegler (AUT). The pair looked strong in the early rounds but could not match the mighty top Austrian team in the quarterfinals. Two Italian teams and the remaining two Austrian teams followed behind them.
MIXED TEAM PARALLEL RESULTS
A. Prommegger / S. Payer (AUT) - 100 points
S. Baumeister / R.T. Hofmeister (GER) - 80 points
G. Casanova / F.N. Baetschi (SUI) - 60 points
J. Zogg / D. Caviezel (SUI) - 50 points
A. Payer / C. Riegler (AUT) - 45 points
The other scheduled mixed team event will be the last race of the World Cup season in Winterberg, Germany before the World Championships. There is no time to rest as the VISA FIS Snowboard Alpine World Cup tour moves to Bansko, Bulgaria for a pair of PGS races this weekend.
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