Jan 18, 2025 · Austria’s top speed skier, Vincent Kriechmayr, is facing a race against time to recover for the upcoming World Championships in Saalbach after suffering a strained medial ligament in his right knee.

Vincent Kriechmayr (born 1 October 1991) is an Austrian World Cup alpine ski racer and specializes in the speed events of super-G and downhill. ... Wengen, Switzerland: Downhill 2020: 20 December 2019: Val Gardena, Italy: Super-G 20 February 2020: Hinterstoder, Austria: Super-G 2021: 25 January 2021: Kitzbühel, Austria:

Jan 18, 2025 · After a brutal crash, Vincent Kriechmayr, currently the only podium skier in the ÖSV men's speed team, could be out indefinitely - just one week before the home races in Kitzbühel.

Jan 18, 2025 · Austria's speed ace Vincent Kriechmayr suffered a severe strain in the inner ligament of his right knee when he crashed in the final S of the downhill in Wengen on Saturday - 17 days before the...

Jan 15, 2022 · WENGEN, Switzerland (AP) — It is never easy for Switzerland to watch an Austrian downhiller win its signature ski race that is part of the Alpine nation’s culture. It was even harder to take Saturday as Vincent Kriechmayr won the classic Lauberhorn race that Swiss team officials said this week he should not have been allowed to start.

Jan 20, 2025 · From an ÖSV perspective, Vincent Kriechmayr could be such an athlete. However, he is known to have injured himself in Wengen. "I saw it at the finish and that was of course very bitter," says...

Jan 18, 2025 · Vincent Kriechmayr got off relatively lightly after his crash in the Lauberhorn downhill in Wengen on Saturday. The Frenchman Blaise Giezendanner was worse off.

Jan 18, 2025 · Still, the 4.45-kilometers (2 ¾-mile) course that twists beneath the Eiger, Jungfrau and Mönch mountain peaks is always tiring and two-time Lauberhorn winner Vincent Kriechmayr crashed hard into safety fences before the final turn.

Jan 20, 2023 · Kriechmayr, the only skier not from Norway or Switzerland to win a men’s World Cup race this season, became the third Austrian in the last 15 years to win the Kitzbuehel race, after Hannes Reichelt triumphed in 2014 and Matthias Mayer six years later.

Mar 6, 2021 · Vincent Kriechmayr continues stellar form in Saalbach downhill. The two-time world champion was peerless on home snow, as second-placed Beat Feuz took big step towards a fourth downhill crystal globe.