Also in the team competition of the World Cup, the largest German snowboard hope remains without a medal. “The disappointment is great,” says the sports director.
Once silver, but then nothing more-apart from disappointments: The German alpine snowboarders around the great hopeful Ramona Hofmeister, after the surprising medal for Stefan Baumeister, also remained behind their own expectations in their last World Cup race. In the mixed team competition, the German teams in St. Moritz drove far past the podium.
The German top duo Hofmeister/Baumeister failed in the victory of Italy 1 in front of Italy 2 as well as Germany 2 with Cheyenne Loch/Elias Huber in the round of 16. “Eliminated far too early,” complained Hofmeister in the ARD, “the disappointment is great. Stefan has a medal in my luggage, I have to check off the World Cup.” Germany 3 with Melanie Hochreiter/Ole Mikkel Prantl had already failed in qualification.
“The disappointment is already very, very large, we imagined it differently, the goals were different”, known sports director Andreas Scheid from Snowboard Germany despite the builder medal in the parallel giant slalom. Based on the services in the World Cup, “we could have played among the top four,” he added, “he added. In other words, at least reaching the duels around the medals was planned.
Especially for Hofmeister, the World Cup was anything but hoped for: failed in the parallel giant slalom in qualification, left in the parallel slalom in the round of 16 and thus ninth-her declared wish from a first golden medal at a World Cup to Silber (2021) and bronze (2019) in the parallel slalom remained unfulfilled.
Hofmeister came to St. Moritz with six season victories, but did not cope there at all. “Ramona had plans a lot to drive home without a top result,” said Scheid, who admitted: “In the end, the air was out.” The Germans had dominated the team competition at the World Cup final in Winterberg with first and second place.
The hopes for another medal for snowboard Germany are resting on the crossers. Your competitions will take place next weekend.