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Anna Gbader left the opening of the World Cup in Cardrona early September due to a lack of training. Today, in Modena, the Olympic Snowboard Champion is entering the Big Air.

05h50, 03 November 2018

The defending champion in the discipline clbadification is aiming for the podium. Highlights of the season include the Kreischberg World Cup at home in mid-January and the world championships at the beginning of February in Solitude (USA).

The celebration did not take place after the victory of the Austrian sportswoman of the year on Wednesday night, because Thursday morning, it was played in Italy at the age of 27 years. Even if she missed the prelude, can Anna Gbader speculating again on the little balloon, even in pre-season, it has not always been started. Siegen in Milan and Beijing followed the abandonment of Mönchengladbach and Copper Mountain for a heel contusion. At the end of March, she did not participate in the finals in Quebec, but she scored 40 points in front of the Japanese. Miyabi Onitsuka,

World Cups in Beijing (Big Air, 23./24.11), Secret Garden (CHN / Slopestyle, 19.-21.12.), Kreischberg (Slopestyle, 11./12.1.), Laax (Slopestyle, 15 18.1.), Seiseralm (Slopestyle, 24.-26.1.), Mammoth (Slopestlye, 6.-8.3.), Quebec (Slopestyle and Big Air, 14.-17.3.) And Oslo (Big Air, 22.3.) Declared.

"Of course, I want to go to the final, but the first six, when there will be forty at the start, are not so easy, that's the big goal." Hopefully that will be enough for a podium spot ", said Gbader before the Modena competition. "I have not learned a new trick yet, but I am starting, I continue to develop, I see improvements to be made." Backside Double Cork 1080 and Cab Double Cork 1080 are their high quality tips that made them thrilled and enthusiastic at the Pyeongchang Winter Games.

Already in the spring, she started working on new figures, but then was injured. "I'm sure I can show one or two new jumps this year," she said optimistically. While training on the airbag in Kreischberg, Gbader tore the syndesmosis band at his right ankle, followed in May by a tear in the left ankle ligament at the X-Games in Oslo.

"I spent a few good weeks in Saas-Fee, I did my most difficult jumps and I trained, I feel well prepared, I'm looking forward to participating in the first competition, and I'm It's a little tingling. "

This will be especially special at the event at home on the Kreischberg. "I am very happy to show this sport to my audience and the live is different from what it is on TV, so I hope that many of you will watch it and I think it will will be a spectacular show. " In 2015, Gbader won the slopestyle silver medal at the World Championships in Kreischberg with a plaster hand.