Winter sports ticker | Auchentaller sprints onto the podium

BIATHLON: At the second-class IBU Cup in Brezno-Osrblie (Slovakia). Hannah Auchentaller stormed onto the podium. The young Antholzer was only beaten by her teammate Eleonora Fauner in the sprint and ended up in second place. Both Azzurres performed flawlessly at the shooting range, with Fauner finishing 2 seconds faster at the finish. With this performance, Auchentaller recommends herself for her next World Cup nomination. With Beatrice Trabucchi (10th), another Azzurra landed in the top 5 on Saturday. BOB: Johannes Lochner took his second win in a row in the two-man bobsleigh World Cup in Winterberg. He and pusher Georg Fleischhauer prevailed ahead of the Swiss duo Michael Vogt/Sandro Michel (+0,14), the Brits Bradley Hall/Taylor Lawrence (+0,27, 3) landed in XNUMXrd place. The South Tyrolean bobsleigh pilot Patrick Baumgartner has to miss this weekend due to an injury. He recently suffered a back injury. ALPINE SKIING: At the men's European Cup Super-G in Wengen, Florian Schieder raced to fifth place on Saturday. At the finish, the Castelrotto native was 5 hundredths behind Gilles Roulin, who led a Swiss double victory. Mattia Cason ended up outside the points. The winner from the previous day, Nicolo Molteni, was eliminated. CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING: The German Olympic champion Katharina Hennig duped the international competition at the Tour de Ski and achieved her first ever World Cup victory. The 26-year-old prevailed in the mass start over 15 kilometers in the classic technique on Saturday and distanced herself from the last remaining rivals on the sun-drenched home straight of Val di Fiemme. After Olympic gold in the team sprint and Olympic silver in the relay - both in Beijing in 2022 - it is the greatest success of Hennig's career. Best Azzurra was Anna Comarella in 17th place. ARTISTIC TRACK TOBOGGANING: Dajana Eitberger won the World Cup race for lugers in Sigulda, Latvia. The German relegated the Latvian Elina Ieva Vitola to second place. With Julia Taubitz in third place, another German luger made it onto the podium. The vet Sandra Robatscher took 2th place as the best Azzurra. Andrea Vötter from Völs finished the race in 3th place, Verena Hofer from Feldthurns in 6th place, Nina Zöggeler (Völlan) in 8th place. SKI JUMPING: The German ski jumper Katharina Althaus won the World Cup individual in Sapporo, Japan. With attempts at 122 and 131 meters, the 26-year-old from Oberstdorf prevailed on Saturday ahead of Ema Klinec (Slovenia) and yellow-carrier Eva Pinkelnig from Austria. Jessica Malsiner from Val Gardena jumped to 22nd place (111 and 116,15 meters). Her sister Lara also made it to 28th place in the points (101,5 and 114). NORDIC COMBINATION: The Austrian star athlete Johannes Lamparter (133,8 points) won the competition in Otepää, in which ski jumping followed cross-country skiing. He relegated his competitors Ilkka Herola from Finland (-9,7 points) and his compatriot Thomas Rettenberger (-17,1 points) to second and third place. The best Azzurro was Raffaele Buzzi (-44,4 points) in 21st place, just ahead of South Tyrolean Aaron Kostner (-45,1 points/22nd place). Samuel Costa landed in 34th place (-59,3 points). The women's event was canceled due to strong winds on the hill.

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Winter sports ticker | Auchentaller sprints onto the podium

Things are going fast again these days in winter sports. What's happening next to the big World Cup decisions in biathlon, alpine skiing and the like can be found in our winter sports ticker.

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