Austria announces 2020-21 National Team

The Austrian Ski Federation has announced it’s alpine nominations for the 2020-21 season. In total, 13 women and seven men will make up the national team group. New to the national teams are Nina Ortlieb, Franziska Gritsch, Chiara Mair, Elisa Moerzinger, as well as Roland Leitinger. Ortlieb finished top 10 overall in the downhill, super G, and the alpine combined and earned her first World Cup podium and World Cup win in the 2019-20 season. Gritsch also earned her first World Cup podiums in the 2019-20 season in alpine combined and parallel slalom. Leitinger made significant moves in the giant slalom.

Notable names absent from this year’s national roster are Manuel Feller, Max Franz, and Otmar Striedinger on the men’s side, and Eva-Maria Brem, Tamara Tippler, Miriam Puchner, and Katharina Gallhuber on the women’s.

Men’s Team

National Team: Christian Hirschbuehl, Vincent Kriechmayr, Roland Leitinger, Michael Matt, Matthias Mayer, Hannes Reichelt, Marco Schwarz

A-Team: Stefan Brennsteiner, Daniel Danklmaier, Marc Digruber, Manuel Feller, Patrick Feurstein, Max Franz, Fabio Gstrein, Raphael Haaser, Daniel Hemetsberger, Niklas Kock Christoph Krenn, Adrian Pertl, Otmar Striedinger, Christian Walder

B-Team: Stefan Babinsky, Christian Borgnaes, Armin Dornauer, Thomas Dorner, Lukas Feurstein, Matthias Grap, Felix Hacker, Pirmin Hacker, Maximillian Lahnsteiner, Christopher Neumayer, Simon Oberhamberger, Moritz Opetnik, Lukas Passrugger, Andreas Ploier, Dominik Raschner, Raphael Riederer, Stefan Rieser, Julian Schuetter, Joshua Sturm, Manuel Traninger, Paul Vonier

C-Team: Lukas Broschek, Jakob Eisner, Noah Geihseder, Jakob Greber, Max Greber, Philip Hoffman, Philip Lackner, Valentin Lotter, Johannes Passrugger, Kilian Pramstaller, Niklas Skaardal, Georg Steinthaler, Vincent Wieser

Women’s Team

National Team: Stephanie Brunner, Franziska Gritsch, Cornelia Huetter, Katharina Liensberger, Chiara Mair, Nina Ortlieb, Bernadette Schild, Nicole Schmidhofer, Ramona Siebenhofer, Katharina Truppe, Anna Veith, Stephanie Venier

A-Team: Christina Ager, Eva-Maria Brem, Nadine Fest, Katharina Gallhuber, Ricarda Haaser, Michaela Heider, Katharina Huber, Elisabeth Kappaurer, Sabrina Maier, Mirjam Puchner, Ariane Radler, Elisabeth Reisinger, Julia Scheib, Christine Scheyer, Rosina Schneeberger, Tamara Tippler

B-Team: Nina Astner, Magdalena Egger, Lisa Grill, Bernadetta Lorenz, Michelle Niederwieser, Vanessa Nussbaumer, Stephanie Resch

C-Team: Elena Exenberger, Teresa Fritzenwallner, Linda Hiller, Lisa Hoerhager, Melanie Niederdorfer, Maria Niederndorfer, Valentina Pfurtscheller, Amanda Salzgeber, Tina Schaedle, Anna Schilcher, Emily Schoepf, Selina Stecher, Sophia Waldauf