Liensberger, the golden girl he had been waiting for for years: the explosion in Cortina, the harp and "skiing with the heart"

The Austrian became big with the double world title. It's only a matter of time for the first cup win ...

Wednesday 24 February 2021 5 minutes reading time

His motto is "skiing with the heart", the great passion to play the harp, the goal to become number 1 on the snow. After Cortina 2021, it can be said that Katharina Liensberger has definitively exploded, as so many experts have been predicting for years; the double world title between parallel and slalom, with the bronze in giant which for 9 cents did not turn into gold (with a circus number in the final of the 2nd round ...), for a talent who in the first five slalom of the World Cup season had already shown that she was ready to win, even though she had not yet succeeded in the top circuit. And to think that the entire Austrian women's national team has not yet won this season and, in the same world championship, only the 23-year-old native of Vorarlberg has gone to the medal; she is the new star, but be careful because between the narrow poles, for skiing with your feet always glued to the ground, she now seems to be the absolute reference, even if certainly Shiffrin and Vlhova will know how to respond and the last four specialty races, in this ending of CdM, will be very interesting in this sense. Back home and guest on Monday evening of "Sport und Talk" on Servus TV, "Kathi" talked about her sensational World Cup ("I never thought of such results") and her ambitions, always with a low profile and with a key. "Have fun". On the columns of the Vorarlberger Nachrichten, the father of the champion, Thomas Liensberger, explained that her daughter as a child did not want to ride a bicycle with wheels, nor did she want to swim with bracelets. “She has always had the will to constantly improve”, she who attended the ski school in Schruns, then studied at the Stams ski school, one of the most famous in the country. In January 2016, the debut in the World Cup in Flachau, the place that three years later will give her the first podium in slalom, in the middle the medals at the jr world championships and, in the first months of 2018, the top ten in Zagreb that she anticipated the first Olympic adventure in PyeongChang, with silver in the team event, "for me it was like a movie, since shortly before the race I didn't even know I would be deployed". The second silver, in this world case, in Are always in the parallel team which then in Cortina will see her triumph, in the individual test, on a par with Marta Bassino. The hardest period of Katharina's career, however, was that of summer-autumn 2019, with the controversy related to the use of materials that had risked even leading her to break with the federation. A conditioning evident in the past season, before the explosion of this year with the series of podiums and the triumphs of Cortina.

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