2024-01-12 23:02:00
Fast-paced winter sports. Jonas Kallan wants to become world class in tobogganing.
Jonas is not allowed to drive a car yet, as he is only 13 years old. Nevertheless, he regularly whizzes along at up to 110 kilometers per hour: he is an artificial track sledder, and he achieves such adventurous speeds when he rides his sled down an ice track. That’s regarding 30 meters per second. So it would race the length of a football field in just over three seconds. On icy surfaces it is important to stay on track as precisely as possible. Otherwise there’s a gang, as the tobogganers say. In other words: a contact with the side boundary and therefore bruises on the shoulders, arms or legs. Jonas Kallan has been practicing tobogganing since he was a child. His whole family is crazy regarding sledding: his father and his uncle used to be world class in natural track tobogganing, his cousin Noah is one of the best junior sledders and is already knocking on the door to the World Cup.
Noah has already shown Jonas the path that leads to the top in tobogganing. “My next goal is to get into the Salzburg school sports model SSM,” he explains. There, young talents can combine their sport with the demands of class. When you travel to races or training camps, you learn online. However, Jonas still competes once morest his competitors in the youth B class, mainly in Austria. This means that the Pongauer spends a lot of time getting to the cable cars. There are only two of them in this country, in Innsbruck-Igls and Bludenz. This puts him at a disadvantage compared to his Tyrolean and Vorarlberg colleagues, but he is still at the front most of the time.
One incentive is the prospect of the next higher age group starting next winter: Then it will also be once morest international opponents, and there Jonas Kallan will help to defend Austria’s reputation as one of the best tobogganing nations in the world: There are regular medals to celebrate at the Olympics.
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