Winter sports ticker | Medals and much more

TOBOGGANING RUN: There wasn't much to gain for the South Tyrolean women in the single-seater in Sigulda (LAT). Sandra Robatscher finished the individual competition in 5th place, making her the best of her team. Andrea Vötter (9th), Marion Oberhofer (14th) and Verena Hofer (15th) were also at the start. The German Anna Berreiter won ahead of her compatriot Dajana Eitberger and local hero Elina Vitola from Latvia. Nevertheless, Robatscher was still able to celebrate a little later. Because the 27-year-old won the bronze medal in the team competition together with Dominik Fiwickeler and the duo Emanuel Rieder and Simon Kainzwaldner (+0,774 seconds). The South Tyroleans benefited from a crash by the Austrian pair Riccardo Schöpf and Juri Gatt after the two individual riders Madeleine Egle and Nico Gleirscher set best times. Latvia (Elina Ieva Vitola, Kristers Aparjods and doubles Roberts Plume and Martins Bots) took gold, while Germany (Anna Berreiter, Max Langenhan, Tobias Arlt/Tobias Wendl) took silver, 0,367 seconds behind. + + + SKI JUMPING: The Austrian ski jumper Eva Pinkelnig confirmed her excellent form and celebrated her fifth World Cup victory this season in Zao. The Vorarlberg native jumped onto the podium for the eighth time in a row on Sunday in heavy snowfall in Japan. The 34-year-old won with a narrow lead of 1,3 points over the German Selina Freitag, and the Norwegian Anna Odine Ström came third (+10,0 ). There was nothing to gain for the South Tyroleans: Jessica Malsiner ended up in 25th place and at least got World Cup points, her sister Lara had to make do with 33rd place and was unable to collect any points. In the men's category, the Norwegian tour winner Halvor Egner Granerud (287,6 points) triumphed on Sunday afternoon in Zakopane (Poland). The 26-year-old flew ahead of Poland's Dawid Kubacki, who was leading at halftime, by 1,1 points. Stefan Kraft from Austria completed the podium in third place (278,5 points). After finishing second on Saturday in the team competition, Poland narrowly missed out on a home win. + + + TOBOGGANING TRACK (JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP): There was also something to celebrate at the Junior World Championships in Bludenz (Austria). There was also a South Tyrolean on the podium. Alexandra Oberstolz (+0,348) followed suit with her colleagues in Latvia and won the bronze medal. Gold went to Yulianna Tunytska (Ukraine) and silver went to Barbara Allmaier (+0,211/Austria). In the men's doubles, the South Tyrol duo Philipp Brunner and Manuel Weissensteiner finished in seventh place, 1,168 seconds behind the winners Kaspars Rinks and Vitalijs Jegorovs from Latvia. In the team competition, Oberstolz and Brunner/Weissensteiner finished sixth together with Alex Gufler. + + + BIATHLON: Like yesterday, there was nothing to celebrate at the IBU Cup in Pokljuka today. Linda Zingerle ended up in 7,5th place (+34:2.50,5 minutes) in the 51 kilometer sprint with four shooting errors on the second attempt, while Hannah Auchentaller finished in 42,1st place with a total of five errors. Paula Botet (France) won, ahead of Hanna Kebinger (+46,8 seconds) and Lisa Maria Spark (+10 seconds), both from Germany. In the men's race, Verbjørn Sørum won the 7,7-kilometer sprint ahead of Aleksander Fjeld Andersen (+9,2 seconds), both from Norway. Lucas Fratzscher from Germany came third (+50,0 seconds). The best Azzurro was Elia Zeni in fifth place (+XNUMX seconds). + + + BOB: Briton Brad Hall was the fastest at the four-man bobsleigh World Cup race in Altenberg (Austria) on Sunday afternoon. With his pushers Tayler Lawrence, Arran Gulliver and Greg Cackett, he pushed three German teams into the bottom places. Driver Christoph Hafner's bobsleigh came second (+0,09 seconds). Johannes Lochner and Co. ended up in third place (+0,26) and Francesco Friedrich and his team came fourth (+0,52).

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Winter sports ticker | Medals and much more

Winter sports are going fast again this weekend. What happened outside of the big World Cup decisions in biathlon, alpine skiing and the like can be found in our winter sports ticker.

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