German bobsleigh and skeleton aces in Laces – view of Beijing

At full speed through the ice track: Bobsleigh and skeleton are undoubtedly spectacular sports. While the bobsleigh is driven in teams of two or four, the skeletons are, so to speak, lone fighters. Lying on their stomachs and head first, they race through the ice channel on the skeleton sled. The name of the sled and thus the sport comes from the fact that the vehicle is reminiscent of a steel skeleton. Both sports are Olympic and in both sports German athletes are among the best in the world.

Some of these national athletes were recently in Laces and completed their summer preparation for the season here. “It is a crucial phase of preparation,” says Heiner Preute, athletics/bobsleigh coach at TV Gladbeck. At the training camp in Vinschgau were the bobsleigh pushers Annika Drazek, Kira Lipperheide, Neele Schuten, bobsleigh pilot Lena Böhmer and the skeleton pilots Paula Preute, Hannah Neise and Jacqueline Lölling. Medal hopes at the 2022 Olympics Above all, 26-year-old “Jacka” Lölling is one of the German medal hopes at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing. In 2018 she won the silver medal in Pyeongchang. She also won silver at the World Championships in Altenberg in 2021. In 2017 in Königssee she was crowned world champion. In 2019 she also won the overall World Cup. “She has always been at the forefront in recent years. Of course the goal is a medal. But we are dealing with a high level of performance in this sport,” said Coach Preute.

The other athletes can also boast great success: Annika Drazek won World Cup gold in the two-man bobsleigh in 2019 as Mariama Jamanka's pusher, and at the 2018 Olympics she finished fourth with Stephanie Schneider. Kira Lipperheide won World Cup gold together with Kim Kalicki in 2020. Skeleton pilot Hannah Neise was crowned junior world champion in 2021.

The athletes from the North Rhine-Westphalia Bobsleigh and Sled Sports Association (NWBSV), all of whom, apart from Lölling and Neise, belong to TV Gladbeck, focused on strength and conditioning training in Latsch. “We find everything we need here,” explained athletic trainer Preute. Season starts in mid-September The season begins in mid-September with the first tests. The first international races are scheduled for the IBSF races in Yanqing (Beijing) in October. These are considered important Olympic tests. The first World Cup races will take place in Innsbruck in November. “The main thing for our riders is to qualify for the Olympic Games. “Germany has a lot of strong athletes,” said Preute. He and his team arrived in Latsch in mid-August and trained here until August 26th.

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German bobsleigh and skeleton aces in Laces – view of Beijing

The athletes of the German national bobsleigh and skeleton team are looking forward to the upcoming winter season with confidence. She recently faced a “crucial preparation phase” in Vinschgau.

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