Andrea Filser won a medal when she participated in the World Cup for the first time.
The Wildsteiger has not yet really understood what she has succeeded in doing.
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- Two weeks have now passed since Andrea Filser (SV Wildsteig) was allowed to wear her first World Championship medal in the title fights in Cortina d'Ampezzo (Italy).
A special time that is shaped by a very specific moment that the 27-year-old will forever have in her head.
Filser will probably never forget the moment when she realized that she had won a medal at her first World Cup.
“At first I couldn't believe what was happening.
You have been working towards it for so long and suddenly it is there. "
Alpine skiing: Andrea Filser still cannot really put her success into words
It is still difficult for her to put this one moment into words.
All the interviews, congratulations and everything that came after that was also wonderful, but nothing comes close to that one moment when “Germany” lit up on the ad.
Except maybe the award ceremony at which her team-mate Stefan Luitz hung the medal on her.
Or your own drive in the small final against Switzerland.
"When I won my heat and was faster than Wendy Holdener, that was just perfect," said Filser.
Alpine skiing: Only in her room did Andrea Filser calm down again
However, the Wildsteiger recalls, she was fully in race mode until the end, fully focused.
“Our primary goal that day was to set a fast time in every run and to win our heats if possible.
I hardly noticed what happened around it, ”reports the 27-year-old.
When she crossed the finish line as the third driver of the German team in the small final, team mate Stefan Luitz first had to bring her up to date.
And then, while she was cheering for the fourth runner on the team, Alexander Schmid, it slowly dawned on her what it was all about.
"My pulse was constantly high, first from driving, then from cheering and finally with joy." Calm only returned when she and roommate Lena Dürr set up their medals and wooden squirrels, the honorary award that each medal winner also received, in the room.
“We placed the squirrels on the cupboard and decorated them with our medals,” explains Filser - the best conceivable sight for the rest of the World Cup days.
It was just nice to see how many people congratulated me from the bottom of their hearts and sometimes had tears in their eyes.
Andrea Filser
At home, too, she's still doing it that way at the moment.
"I haven't found a special place yet, both are currently in the middle of my living room table", always in view.
Many wild climbers wanted to see the medal after the World Cup.
"It was just nice to see how many people congratulated me from the bottom of their hearts and sometimes had tears in their eyes." Wildsteig with its 1200 inhabitants is not very big, and almost everyone knows Filser's story, her passion and her fight against them Injuries back on the big ski platform.
The fact that this fight has now been rewarded with a medal is certainly above all her own achievement, her own ambition.
“But part of the medal also belongs to my family and friends, who have always been there for me,” Filser emphasizes.
Of course, the team medal outshines Filser's days in Cortina, but she is also proud of her results in the individual competitions.
"The second rounds in particular were good and I achieved good placings."
Alpine skiing: Andrea Filser would like to take the momentum from the World Cup into the upcoming World Cup races
The 27-year-old wants to take this momentum with her into the upcoming races in the World Cup.
In Jasna (Slovakia) there is a giant slalom on this Saturday and a slalom on Sunday.
A week later in Are (Sweden) two more slaloms will follow (March 12th and 13th).
The Wildsteiger is currently in a good mood in both disciplines and would like to collect points in both.
It would be the right way to end her first full World Cup and World Cup season.
KATHRIN EBENHOCH