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In Ofterschwang they left alpine skiing during the first round of the slalom two champions who may not have won a lot but who have given their sport to their sport for almost twenty years, Veronika Zuzulová and Michaela Kirchgasser.
Saturday 10 March 2018 6 minutes reading time
Born on July 15, 1984 in the Slovakian capital then part of Czechoslovakia, Bratislava, married to the French coach and his staff Romain Velez, Veronika Zuzulová was mainly slalomista but dedicated until a few years ago also to the giant and in the first even years to the combined. He played 183 World Cup races, the first was the giant of Sölden on 28 October 2000. He climbed 30 times on the podium, 27 in slalom and 3 in the City Event, of these, 5 were wins, 4 in slalom and one in the City Event of Monaco on New Year's Eve 2013 three days after his first success at Semmering, which arrived after 13 podiums without wins. The last victory came last year in Zagreb, in 2016 he won twice in Flachau. She has been on the podium of the specialty classification four times, third in 2008 and in 2013 and second in 2016 and 2017, the year in which she was also eleventh in the general classification. She was junior world champion among the narrow doors in 2002, in eight Senior World Championships from 2001 to 2017 the best result was a fourth place in 2015. Complicated her relationship with the Olympic Games, which she participated four times: she was tenth in 201 but in 2014 there was no cause for injury, which has risked again this year but with a record recovery has managed to be at the start and ranked seventeenth. He also won 13 European Cup slaloms, winning the classification of specialties in 2004, 2007 and 2012. Today his long embrace with his heir on the Slovak throne, Petra Vlhová, eleven years younger than her, is beautiful.
Born March 18, 1985 in Schwarzach mi Pongau, Austrian Land of Salzburg, grew up in Filzmoos and married to a fellow with the same surname, Michaela Kirchgasser played 284 World Cup races, the first was the slalom of Sestriere December 9, 2001 where he was seventeenth with the pectoral number 77. He could have won much more than the three Cup races, which was the fault of too many "kirchgasserate", the Austrian equivalent of the "goggiate". In giant he won in Sierra Nevada in 2007, in slalom in Kranjska Gora and in the finals in Schladming in 2012, and he climbed another 14 times on podiums, 7 in combined, 4 in giant, 2 in City Event and 1 in slalom, a total of 17. In the general classification was eighth in 2008, in 2010 and in 2011 went to points in all specialties, was second in the ranking of slalom in 2012, third in the ranking of giant in 2007, combined third in the 2010, in 2013 and 2016 and second in 2014. 7 his wins in the European Cup, 4 in giant, 2 in slalom and 1 in combined, was third in the general in 2003 and second in 2005 when he won the ranking of giant, while two years earlier he was third in slalom and in 2008 third in combined. At the Junior World Championships he was gold in slalom and silver in combined in 2003 and bronze in giant in 2005. He competed in six editions of the World Championships from 2007 to 2017, winning silver in slalom in 2013 and bronze in combined in 2015 and 2017. At the Olympics, however, his best result achieved him in the first of his three appearances finishing fifth in slalom in 2006. This year he was injured but managed to return to the race without getting the pass for the PyeongChang Games but a place in the combined at least he would have deserved it as a career award. We just have to do a big good luck to these two great women who have contributed greatly to make us love even more alpine skiing.
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