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After his recent excellent performances such as winning the European Ski Cup in Berchtesgaden, ski racer Joshua Sturm from St. Leonhard in Pitztal will compete in the slalom World Cup races in Kitzbühel and Schladming.
St. Leonhard im Pitztal, 19 January 2021. After his first European Cup victory in the slalom in Berchtesgaden, ski racer Joshua Sturm from St. Leonhard im Pitztal will compete in the slalom World Cup races in Kitzbühel and Schladming. He only celebrated his World Cup debut in Val d'Isère in December 2021.
"We warmly congratulate Joshua Sturm on his European Cup victory in Berchtesgaden and are very happy that he can now also show his great talent in Kitzbühel and Schladming," says a delighted Beate Rubatscher-Larcher, Managing Director of the Pitztaler Gletscherbahn, which has been supporting Joshua Sturm in cooperation with the TVB Pitztal and the Bergbahnen Hochzeiger for three years now.
"I just skied," says Joshua Sturm modestly about his victory in Berchtesgaden and is already very much looking forward to his upcoming starts in the World Cup. If he was still skiing with bib number 65 in Val d'Isère, he should already be starting from a much better starting position in Kitzbühel.
"I learned to ski at the bottom of the plate lift on the Pitztal glacier," says Sturm about how he started skiing. And the passion for this skiing sport was laid in the Pitztaler's cradle, so to speak. His father is a ski instructor. At the age of three, the now 20-year-old was already standing on two boards at races and since then he can't imagine anything better: Snow, nature, skis. "Honestly, I can't imagine a better profession for me," says Sturm. But skiing also brings some challenges. "It's especially hard when you've prepared super well for a season and then have to take a break because of an injury," says Sturm. Nevertheless, the positives of the sport outweigh the negatives for him. "I see such things as a challenge because it makes you grow beyond your limits every day."
"I have particularly fond memories of winning the school championship with the Stams ski school in L'Aquila or winning the Longines Future Ski Champions in St. Moritz," enthuses
about his early victories. Since then, Sturm has competed in numerous FIS races and achieved his first successes. He became Austrian Junior Champion in 2018 and 2021, won gold in the slalom at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Sarajevo in 2019 and bronze at the Junior Alpine Ski World Championships in Bansko in 2021. The young athlete, who lives in St. Leonhard in Pitztal, has been part of the ÖSV B squad since 2019.
In addition to Joshua Sturm, the Pitztaler Gletscherbahn supports other athletes such as the young ski racer Bernadette Lorenz or the cross-country skier Urban Lentsch.
Contact for queries: Pitztaler Gletscherbahn, presse-pitztal@tirolgletscher.com, 05413/86288