Oberhaching – skiers prepare for competition – district of Munich

It’s not just the weather that’s playing along, but otherwise “it’s looking good at the moment”, as Uwe Borchert says. “The championship is being planned and should take place.” He means the 18th Open Oberhachinger Alpine Ski Championships, which are to take place again this year after a forced break of one year. This is a ski competition for all Oberhachinger and club members from the district between 6 and 99 years. Environmental gardeners from Neubiberg have also been invited, as have swimming sharks from Riemerling and smart foxes from Oberschleißheim, to name just a few. The registration deadline is this Wednesday, January 26, at 6 p.m. The race itself starts on Saturday, February 5, in Hopfgarten/Itter, in the Wilder Kaiser ski area, Austria.

Borchert, 61, is head of the ski team at TSV Oberhaching-Deisenhofen, which developed from the ski school founded in 1996/97 and has had a racing team since 2003. Among the approximately 250 members, 85 children are now in training, gaining experience at local and regional championships. The Oberhachinger championships are used to find talent and are a matter of honour. At the mass sports championship on the first weekend in February, the aim is to complete a family-friendly giant slalom twice as quickly as possible on the Schernthann slope 24 b in Hopfgarten am Wilden Kaiser. The youngest, those under the age of eight, start at 10 a.m. Then it goes on in two-year steps, group by group. The adults also start in age groups. All detailed information can be found on the Internet http://www.skiteam-oberhaching.de/oha-WM.

25 helpers and judges are needed, one of them will be Mayor Schelle again

Borchert expects a total of around 250 participants, because the race is also a ski competition as part of the district cup, to which eight ski clubs belong. Race director will then be Erhard Meitinger, for whom Borchert is currently organizing the more than 25 necessary helpers. Borchert’s wife will hand out the starting numbers at the Salvenbahn valley station and collect them afterwards. Six gate judges check that the racers take the correct route around the gates, with each judge overseeing five gates. If one is torn from its anchorage, they help to set it up again.

Eight snow groomers keep slipping through the marked course so that no heaps form, which could become a hazard. A start and two finish judges, three timekeepers and last but not least the judges determine which family and which individual starters among men and women, boys and girls have driven the fastest and can finally call themselves Oberhachinger local champions 2022. Of course, supervisors take care of the ski kids who ride without parents, and others make sure that everything is Corona-friendly with masks and distances.

The Mayor of Oberhaching, Stefan Schelle, is also planned to help. “Hardly in office, he took over the patronage 18 years ago and has always been there since then, helping out as a gate judge or slope attendant,” recalls Borchert. Now he may see talent again, like Filippa Ries in 2013, who has become the ski club’s biggest talent at the moment. She is one of the seven best skiers born in Germany in 2005 and was called up to the German national squad. At the beginning of this school year, she should have been able to go to the Berchtesgaden ski school. But she decided that she would rather stay with her friends at the Unterhaching high school and continue to start from here for the “Red Devils” of the Oberhaching ski team.

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