Winter sports ticker | Baumgartner is consistently good

In the shadow of Antholz and Kitzbühel, another dozen South Tyrolean winter sports athletes will be in action this Saturday. Here we provide an overview of their performance on the international stage.

25 January 2025

From: sportsnews

+++ CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING +++

Italy's cross-country skiing veteran Federico Pellegrino made it back onto the podium in the freestyle sprint in the Swiss Engadine. He finished third, only beaten by Johannes Klæbo and Edvin Anger. The Sarner Michael Hellweger mastered the qualification in the morning and was then eliminated in the quarterfinals in fourth place in his heat with a very narrow gap.

+++ SNOWBOARD +++

There is a South Tyrolean victory to celebrate in the European Snowboard Cup: exceptional talent Tommy Rabanser was the fastest in the parallel slalom in Simonhöhe. The 17-year-old from Grödner won the final against the German Samue Vojtasek and thus celebrated his fourth victory of the season. With Philipp Mutschlechner Another South Tyrolean made it into the top ten.

Tommy Rabanser has struck again.

+++ BOB +++

Briton Brad Hall is celebrating again in the four-man bobsleigh. As he did recently in Winterberg, he relegated the two-time double Olympic champion from Germany, Francesco Friedrich, to second place. On the 1722-meter-long natural ice track in St. Moritz, South Tyrol's bobsleigh ace, the Palatinate Patrick Baumgartner, back into the top ten. Together with Eric Fantazzini, Roberto Mircea and Lorenzo Bilotti, he finished sixth.

+++LUGE TRACK SLEDING +++

Madeleine Egle won twice at the Luge World Cup in Oberhof. Just a few hours after her victory in the doubles (see below), she also won the women's individual race. The Austrian pushed the German Julia Taubitz and the Swiss Natalie Maag into second and third place. The local lugers Verena Hofer and Nina Zöggeler took places 12 and 22.

+++ SKI JUMPING +++

The Val Gardena woman Lara Malsiner jumped into the top ten at the ski jumping super team event in Zao (Japan). Together with Annika Sieff from the Val di Fiemme, she took seventh place with 563,9 points. The victory went to the German duo Freitag/Reisch (647,4 points).

+++ ARTIFICIAL TRACK LBOGDING +++

A week after her bronze medal win at the European Luge Championships make Andrea Voetter and Marion Oberhof narrowly missed the podium at the World Cup in Oberhof. The South Tyrolean duo came second after the first run, but made a mistake in the deciding part of the course and slipped to fourth place. In the end, they were only three thousandths of a second behind the third-placed German team Eitberger/Matschina.

Andrea Vötter and Marion Oberhofer slipped off the podium. © Hermann Sobe Medienservice HS

First place went to the Austrians Egle/Kipp ahead of the German team Degenhardt/Rosenthal. The South Tyroleans Nadia Falkensteiner and Annalena Huber Having finished eighth in the first run, they are pushed out in the second round.

Two teams from South Tyrol took part in the men’s doubles. The better result went to Ivan Nailer and Fabian Malleier who finished the race in Oberhof in ninth place. Emanuel Rieder and Simon Kainzwaldner on the other hand, ended up outside the top 10, in 13th place. The Germans, however, were able to celebrate the loudest, with a double victory: Wendl/Arlt won ahead of Orlamünder/Gubitz (+ 0,068 seconds). The Austrians Steu/Kindl completed the podium (0,238 seconds behind the winners).

+++ SKI JUMPING +++
In the men's ski jumping in Oberstdorf (Germany), the Slovenian Timi Zajc won with 453,7 points. The ski jump in Oberstdorf suits him well, and it was his fourth triumph after 2019, 2022 and 2024. Behind him, the Norwegian Johann Andre Forfang (448,6 points) and Zajc's compatriot Domen Prevc (444,9 points) also made it onto the podium. The Val Gardena native Alex Insam did not make it into the top 30. Insam finished the competition in 34th place.