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Austria’s “team chick” knows how to win World Championship gold

Lukas Feurstein has already won two World Championship medals in his home town of Mellau.

(Bild: Maurice Shourot)

With an average age of 29.34 years, the ÖSV team is one of the hottest contenders for gold in terms of routine. But even the youngest member of the red-white-red squad, 23-year-old Lukas Feurstein from Vorarlberg, already knows what it feels like to receive a gold World Championship medal and hear the national anthem.

"For me, the World Championships were so far away at the start of the season that I never gave it much thought," admits Lukas Feurstein, who at 23 is the "chick" in the red-white-red line-up for Saalbach. "Maybe that was also one of the reasons why the nomination worked out in the end."