Kirchgasser ready to give all''Austria the first podium of the season in the combined in Val d' 'Isere

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Will be ten skiers austriche that on Friday in Val d 'Isere take part in the first alpine combination of the season.

Wednesday 14 December 2016 4 minutes reading time

These girls convened: AGER Christina (1995) HUETTER Cornelia (1992) MAIER Sabrina (1994) PUCHNER Mirjam (1992) Michaela Kirchgasser 1985) ORTLIEB Nina (1998) Scheyer Christine (1994) SCHNEEBERGER Rosina (1994) Siebenhofer Ramona (1991) VENIER Stefanie (1993) After several days of intense workout on the slopes of Nassfeld / Nassfeld the Governing Board of the Austrian Football Association has selected the athletes in better shape to face the combined on Friday. The 'Austria, which until now has only picked up the crumbs also and especially because of the many / too many injuries that have hit his athletes a reference on all Veith-Anna Fenninger, in Savoy will point to their first podium of the season. The 'suspect number one to dispel the taboo is definitely the veteran Michaela Kirchgasser, athlete who has in the technical disciplines his strength but in the recent past has got great satisfaction precisely in the Alpine combined. The thirty-one of Schwarzach im Pongau has indeed won as many as 6 podiums in this discipline, collecting twelve months ago a second place on the Face de Bellevarde, the track that Friday will host this first multiple test of the season. The 'Austrian will also have on its also the' absence of two opposing potentially ostiche as Mikaela Shiffrin who will miss the 'entire weekend the French and the German Viktoria Rebensburg who decided to concentrate solely on speed events. The other athletes to follow in the House Austria are undoubtedly, the twenty Christina Ager pure but very recently grown downhill slalom skier, Stefanie Venier, Mirjam Puchner and Cornelia Huetter that will aim to take further confidence with the track in view of the free Saturday. The 'list of athletes who take part in the downhill and super-G instead will be announced at the end of Thursday's Last time trial.