NIVELCO Racing Team
Noa Szőllős said goodbye to the kid age group with a fantastic season! She stood on the podium in all the 23 races she participated and her performance is 17 victories! She has also won all three Austrian province cup series in the 2014/15 season. This way she has achieved Champion titles both in the regional and in the provincial championships, besides she won the Queen of the Mountain 2015 title. In addition she defended her Hungarian Championship title and won many other competitions!
Besides her hard work on the trainings the team of expert coaches at Ski Mittel Schule Murau and her brothers also played a great role on these successes when they had opportunity to train together.
In the next year a big challenge is waiting for her when she will participate in the World Championship as a member of the Hungarian National team in the children age group and she has to compete among international racers.
Before the World Championship another long summer preparation is waiting for her. The main part of the preparation will be the trainings as a member of the Cso-Ko tennis team and Pattanj SE acrobatics team. In addition to the dry-land workouts she has to pass in the Hungarian school exams, so in the end of the year she will receive both the Austrian and the Hungarian school reports.
The ski season started with really bad luck for Barnabás Szőllős. After the hard work in the summer full of trainings he suffered a forearm fracture in a gym workout in mid-October.
With the help of a quick surgery and thanks to the doctors he could stand again on the snow only after two weeks, but he could start the intensive trainings only after Christmas.
The expectations against him were so huge so he started the trainings as soon as he can, risking further possible injuries. This way he succeeded to qualify to the EYOF (European Youth Olympic Festival) held in Liechtenstein. He reached the admirable 28th place among the 110 competitors as the best Hungarian racer. Here he was the youngest racer among the competitors.
Only two weeks later he participated in the adults World Championship in Vail, Colorado in the United States also as the youngest racer. The next important stop of the race calendar was the Hungarian Championship where he achieved 2nd position after his elder brother in the U21 age group despite he is only 16 years old.
The series of the highlighted races ended in Norway at the Junior World Championship 2015 which was held in the city of Hafjell. The best result of the year for Barnabás was achieved in Montenegro where he stood on the podium for the first time on an international adult race organized by the International Ski Federation (FIS).
Here at the Montenegro Championship only a Serbian racer was able to enter the podium between the Szőllős brothers since Benjamin won the Championship title and Barnabás achieved the third position.
Benjamin Szőllős also achieved remarkable successes during the 2014/15 season. The participated on several international FIS competitions and reached the TOP15 for 15 times and finished in the TOP3 for 5 times. He won all the three competitions of the Hungarian Championship in the U21 age group and reached second place among the adult racers.
After the summer hard work he was able to train in excellent conditions in the glaciers of Austria and Italy. In addition to the school trainings a private coach, Markus Erhardt coordinated his work to prepare for the start of the season. It was a great help for him that his younger brother joined to the adult age group and they could train together. The healthy rivalry between them had a very good effect on their performance. Benjamin achieved first position for the first time in an international FIS adult competition on the 12th of January in 2015. He won the SES (Small European Ski) Nations Cup which was held in Predeal, Romania where his victory was achieved thanks to his wonderful performance in the second race. All the three competitions he reached podium positions so the trophies had to be sent home as a separate shipment. The most highlighted event of the season was the adults World Championship in the United States. Benjamin could participate in the qualifications of his favourite competition where the first 25 racers could enter the final out of the 110 racers.
After the first race he finished in the 31st place and in the end he had really bad luck since he achieved the 26th position. This way he fell behind to get into the final with only one position, only with 13 hundredths of a second.
After a couple of days he could find comfort in the domestic U21 and the adult Championships held in Austria. In the U21 age group his only rival was his brother, Barnabás. So Benjamin won all the three competitions and increased the number of his Hungarian Championship titles to 11. In the adults competition he had also a really good chance for the victory but a 29 years old Croatian racer was able to beat him. This way Benjamin won a second place at the adult race besides the U21 champion titles. The next event was the Junior World Championship in Norway where the Szőllős brothers achieved the best possible Hungarian results. At the end of the season in the Montenegro Championship Benjamin reached two podium positions which was his second victory on an international FIS adult competition.
NIVELCO congratulate for the remarkable results and wish good luck for the future!
