The ski racer Alexander Schmid missed the World Cup bronze in the parallel race - Mathieu Faivre wins gold

Alexander Schmid missed six goals for his bronze-colored World Cup happiness. At the Alpine World Championships in Cortina d’Ampezzo, the Allgäu narrowly missed the next medal for the German Ski team. In the small final of the parallel event on Tuesday, Schmid risen too much against Loic Meillard from Switzerland, slipped out in his wild race shortly before the finish line to catch up, and had to see the others cheering with a hanging head for medals. "Fourth place is the first loser," said the 26-year-old visibly bent. "I had the chance, but I didn't use it."

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gold went to Mathieu Faivre from France, who won the final against Filip Zubcic (Croatia). In the women's category, Marta Bassino from Italy and the Austrian Katharina Liensberger also became world champion. Bronze went to Tessa Worley from France. After three surprising medals in the first Speed ​​week, the German Ski Association (DSV) was one of the disappointed people at the highlight of the season in the Dolomites. Schmid and Co. want to cheer on the team event again on Wednesday (12.15 p.m.).

in the individual competition it was extremely exciting for Schmid: As one of the fastest in qualification, he only lost to Faivre in the round of 16 in the semi -finals. In the duel with Meillard, the best qualifier, he was half a second after the first run. So he risked everything in the second race and caught up meters by meters. At the last hill in front of the destination, he had caught Meillard. But then he failed too violently on a right curve, slipped onto the inner ski and saw how his medal dream suddenly burst.

Schmid: "I had to go all-in"

"I knew that I" had to go ". I took the risk, tried and can't blame myself," said Schmid, who was third in Lech / Zürs on ARD this winter. "It doesn't help." He could not hide the little shock after the disappointment behind the corona mask. "I don't know either ..." he stammered. The DSV is still with three silver medals Romed Baumann (Super-G), Kira Weidle and Andreas Sander (both downhill).

The teammates of Schmid, Stefan Luitz and Linus Straßer, also had the chance to win the coup in the parallel event. The last injured Luitz lost to Zubcic in the round of 16. "I am glad that I can stand here again," he said. He was annoyed that he had screwed up an important point. Straßer left Meillard in the quarter -finals because he also made a mistake. The man from Munich was "very satisfied" because of his lack of training.

Liensberger then called the winner

There were two gold medals for women - and they could hardly have been celebrated more emotional. At first, Bassino celebrated the host's first precious metal. Then it went crazy: Liensberger was initially declared a silver medalist. Only during the subsequent interviews did she find that she also got gold, and she literally collapsed and shed tears of joy. Andrea Filser was the only German starter in the Ko round in the round of 16 against the local hero Federica Brignone.

The parallel event was part of the program of a World Cup for the first time - and caused problems for many participants and observers. Since one of the two courses was significantly slower, Brignone and the Swiss Wendy Holdener spoke of an "unfair" competition. Ex-professional Felix Neureuther could not escape as a TV expert. However, Schmid did not want to join the criticism - he knew that he had just screwed it up.