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Kira Weidle couldn't get out of the grin after her sensational drive.
The ski racer from Starnberg won silver at the World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo and gave the German team a second medal in the third race.
On Saturday she only had to admit defeat to fellow favorite Corinne Suter from Switzerland by 0.20 seconds.
"Crazy, I don't even know what to say," said Weidle on ARD.
“The snow was fantastic to drive today.
I knew that if it went together, I could go really fast. ”And how!
The only German female speed driver in these championships even left Super-G world champion Lara Gut-Behrami behind by 0.17 seconds, the Swiss woman took bronze.
DSV only represented by three women at the World Cup
The 24-year-old won the first German World Championship medal from the German Ski Association (DSV) in a women's downhill run since Maria Höfl-Riesch in 2013. Katja Seizinger won silver for the last time in 1996. The last downhill world champion from Germany was Rosi Mittermaier in 1976.
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For the DSV, who traveled to Cortina with only three women, the second medal after silver by Romed Baumann in the Super-G is another coup.
In three races, the DSV won the same number of medals as in the 2017 and 2019 World Championships.
After Viktoria Rebensburg's resignation, Weidle himself had missed a difficult winter and the podium in the World Cup.
At the finish she thanked her supervisors, trainers and service people.
“It was not easy to be out and about on your own, especially in the difficult season,” she said.
"So a big thank you."