After a 64-year break

Big bang! Now the ladies are also conquering Kitzbühel

It's the next veritable surprise that the coming ski winter has suddenly come up with - with Marcel Hirscher and Lucas Braathen not only deserving athletes making their comeback this year, but also the speed ladies on the Kitzbühel Streif after a 64-year break! Albeit with the restriction that "only" the European Cup will be held in the Gamsstadt, but not the World Cup ...

In any case, the International Ski Federation FIS calendar shows a Super-G for the European Cup ladies on March 8 and 9, around a month and a half after the legendary men's Hahnenkamm races.

Of course, these competitions are not a premiere, as there were already races for the women between 1932 and 1961. They competed for glory, victories and honor in the downhill, slalom and combined, and later also in the giant slalom.

"I'm having fun, nobody can imagine!"
"The date was free and we decided to give the ladies a stage again. I'm having fun, nobody can imagine that," said Kitzbühel Ski Club President Michael Huber to the Tiroler Tageszeitung newspaper.

Unsurprisingly, especially in view of the younger and inexperienced skiers in the European Cup: the course of the classic Hahnenkamm races, as we know them from the men's World Cup, will be withheld from the women's skiers. Probably also for safety reasons ...