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Lech / Zürs (dpa) - Alexander Schmid rowed his sticks euphorically at the finish and was really happy.

The ski racer from the Allgäu rushed to third place at the parallel alpine event in Lech / Zürs and celebrated the second podium of his World Cup career.

In the knockout competition, the 26-year-old only had to admit defeat to eventual winner Alexis Pinturault from France in the semifinals.

In the duel for third place, he defeated Adrian Pertl from Austria and gave the troubled German alpine team their first podium success this winter.

"It's just amazing," said Schmid, "I really couldn't have imagined it."

In the morning he had already convinced with the third best time in the qualification and confirmed this in the showdown under floodlights.

«I knew I could ski fast.

But the fact that we get this confirmed again is an indescribable feeling, ”added the sportsman from SC Fischen.

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After Schmid had been weakened for a long time by the consequences of the Epstein-Barr virus, he was finally able to train normally and intensively in the summer.

And the parallel races suit him anyway - he took his first podium of his career in the preseason in Chamonix in knockout races.

“That's good for me, this man-to-man, it pushes you.

You just have to take risks and always go to the limit. "

That was what Stefan Luitz had done, which was his undoing in the quarter-finals against the later finalist Henrik Kristoffersen.

In the end, Bolsterlanger, who was actually the winner as the fastest in qualification, finished seventh.

"That was a lot of fun," said Luitz, who made a mistake against the Norwegian.

“You don't stand a chance against a runner like Kristoffersen if you make such mistakes.

I'm very happy with seventh place. "

A year ago he finished second in the parallel race in Alta Badia.

Unlike Schmid and Luitz, the day before the German women had disappointed at the first and only parallel World Cup of the season and missed the knockout round.

The DSV team, which Viktoria Rebensburg lost to hip surgery after retiring and downhill skier Thomas Dreßen, is hoping for a boost from Schmid's podium success.

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