The Rising Ski Stars is an alpine skiing competition that rewards a young skier who is the most successful in the overall FIS World Cup results.
In women, the prize is awarded to an athlete under the age of 21 and in men.
This year the best young male skier was in Finland Eduard Hallbergwho beat second -ranked German Luis vogtin by nine points.
Hallberg’s prize was confirmed on Thursday when the world champion of youth slalom Theodor Braekken He was not able to rise to the prize ball in the Slalom World Cup closing competition.
Wednesday Grand Slalom with the World Wind Champion in France Flavio on Vitale There was still the opportunity to skip the Sipole in the points.
He would have the required investment to pass Hallberg in the top seven, but he dropped out of the first round of the Sun Valley World Cup finals in the first round.
Prize
For the sake of his success, Hallberg is handed out. Last year, the prize was 20,000 Swiss francs, or about € 21,000. This year’s prize amount has not yet been made public.
Of course, Eduard Hallberg was pleased with the prize he received.
– After all, this is a great thing, I’ve been following the cup with the side eye through. It has been exciting, at first it looked really good and then with their own interruptions, the guys got pretty close. It was exciting until the World Cup finals when I was left out of them.
– I could no longer do anything, just follow the couch what others, the world champions of the young, do. This is a kind of victory in the “Little Cup” that tells me that I’m on the right track, said Hallberg in the release.
The Women’s Award is being handed out in Croatia Zrinka to Ljith, for whom the prize was already second