PGS World Cup wraps up in Rogla

Fresh off of the 2021 FIS Snowboard Alpine World Championships competition earlier this week, Saturday saw another thrilling race to go down on the sunny slopes of Rogla (SLO), which wrapped up what was another successful parallel giant slalom World Cup campaign. Germany’s Ramona Theresia Hofmeister and Slovenia’s Zan Kosir took the top spots in respective women’s and men’s competitions, with Hofmeister and Italy’s Roland Fischnaller defending the season’s top World Cup honours by taking home the parallel giant slalom crystal globes. 

Perfect weather and a dynamic course allowed the sport’s best to shine once again this week, and with plenty of tights heats throughout the day, the event in Rogla concluded another highly entertaining PGS World Cup season on a high note.

In the women’s competition Ramona Theresia Hofmeister was back to her winning ways, taking her third PGS victory of the season. Hofmeister edged out the likes of Michelle Dekker (NED), Larissa Gasser (SUI) and Julie Zogg (SUI) before facing Sofia Nadyrshina (RUS) in the big final.

Once there, Hofmeister kicked things off strong, storming out of the starting gate to gain 0.3 sec advantage over Nadyrshina at the first intermediate time. The brand new PSL World Champion Nadyrshina, however, would quickly start to close the gap through the middle section of the course, loosing only 0.01 sec by the second intermediate time. And when it all looked like Nadyrshina was actually coming into the lead, she made a tiny mistake just four gates from the finish line, leaving Hofmeister with enough space to win the race by a very small margin of just 0.03 sec.

With the Saturday’s competition acting as the final PGS event of the season Hofmeister was awarded with the FIS Snowboard Alpine World Cup small crystal globe for winning the giant slalom classification. In five PGS races in 2020/21, the 24-year-old Hofmeister recorded three victories, one runner-up position and one third place, finishing in top-3 in every single PGS race of the campaign.

“I can’t describe this feeling right now,” said Hofmeister, “I’m so in love with Rogla, with this place and this slope. I’m just so thankful. Winning the PGS globe for the second year in a row feels just amazing.”