Already on the drive through the Canton of Schwyz, Wendy Holdener has dominated . The closer the car travellers to the Hoch-Ybrig ski area, the more posters and a Banner he sees on the houses: to the world Cup Bravo Wendy, congratulations-Gold, for example. Here’s Wendy Holdener at home, here is the number 1. The Swiss Championships on the mountain, you are more Holdener-festival for national Competition.

It is Sunday, the completion of this race, bright sunshine, warm temperatures, the ski resort Hoch-Ybrig his best suit has pulled over. In the men’s giant slalom, the women start to Slalom. Holdener wins with a second projection, for the tenth Time, may be called the 25-Year-old Swiss champion. More often, only three drivers have won on the inside, it was in the 60s and 70s.

The node burst to the new year

the Swiss Championships are for Holdener but, above all, an opportunity to take time for their Fans, especially for the Little ones. There is hardly a child who is not riding this weekend with the signature of the Slalom specialist on the helmet on the slopes. The cheers of the spectators is that for her certainly, as she concludes, as the last rider of the competitions and their season.

The winner of the competition of Electrolux and Tamedia cheer with Wendy Holdener on the title. Image: Electrolux

A season that began not quite optimal. The first podium was in the sixth attempt, it was the parallel slalom in St. Moritz. In the Slalom Holdener made it to the end of the year 2018 in Semmering under the first three. Then the Schwyzerin went back in, in the meantime, the usual spheres, in the last five Slaloms there were four podiums and even rank 4.

You will have prior to the season with high expectations, explains Holdener after their victory on the Hoch-Ybrig. “If it is not running then it’s hard to get.” The node is then burst in Training, actually, just in time. Holdener says: “I would say that I was at the world Cup at the peak.”

rides Done with Safety

The world championship in Are, call you also as your Highlight of this long season, even if it was in Sweden in the end a disappointment. The leader after the first Slalom run, Holdener delivery in the second, an error that was not corrected. “I’ve had enough races where I have nothing to risk and not to the victory rode,” says Holdener, “it was time that I try it out.”

Wendy Holdener after the disappointment at the world championship Slalom from Are. Video: Tamedia

A Highlight of the world Cup was because Holdener medals also without the Slalom two gold took home. In the combination, you beat Petra Vlhova, with Ramon Zenhäusern, Daniel Yule, and Aline Danioth, you cemented the Swiss Status in the Team Events. “Of course, there are moments where you’re struggling,” says Holdener to its balance sheet, “but if you already have two gold medals, it’s a different Situation than if you have to go home empty-handed.”

At the world Cup twice at the very top, remained the same in the world Cup a lot. As Holdener waiting for their first victory in the Slalom. She was Second in this season, it was the behind Mikaela Shiffrin. It was a third party, shared the podium, always with Shiffrin and Slovakian Petra Vlhova. Only once, in Maribor, was disturbed by the Swede Anna If-Larsson as the runner-up behind Shiffrin this regularity.

The vacuum cleaner is not yet in Shiffrins

Holdener against Shiffrin, it was once more a one-sided duel, because Shiffrin dominates almost everything there is to dominate it for you. Off-Piste, the two athletes came closer to the inside, together with the Slovenian Ilka Stuhec and the Italian Federica Brignone they flew to Sweden for the world Cup. “That was extremely beautiful,” says Holdener, “and it has made the Situation among the athletes a little looser.”

Because of the private contact between Shiffrin and Holdener, there are hardly any pre-season. Nevertheless, the grandmother of the US-American will soon get a vacuum cleaner of Holdeners Sponsor Electrolux, it is the promise of the Swiss. “They were thrilled when I said that I’m going to organize,” says Holdener. You have had yet no time.

This is changing now with the end of the season. After a few last ski days Holdener will take a break, it goes to Asia, until the middle of may already days of testing, cardio training, and sponsors events to queue. (Editorial Tamedia)

Created: 26.03.2019, 16:48 PM