Biathlon

German Biathletinnen miss podium

Successful Comeback: season-world champion Franziska Preuss is running in her first race this year in canadian Canmore on rank six. A strong storm makes for unequal conditions.

The German Biathletinnen have at the start of the world Cup in canadian Canmore the podiums just missed. Returnee Franziska Preuß was in Sprint on 7,5 kilometres as the best German strong Sixth. The victory secured the Ukrainian Olena Pidhruschna before the also error-free Krystyna Guzik of Poland. Third was the Italian Dorothea Wierer. “For me, it was a great race and start again in a really good position,” said Preuss, the television station ZDF: “It does for the head, well, it again worked so well. It’s just fun, here in front of such a crowd again race to run.” Preuss started for the first Time this year, after a hairline fracture in the coccyx long thwarted had.

At the foot of the Rocky Mountains was part of the rough and hardly controllable gusts of wind for unequal conditions. So shot the four-time Saisonsiegerin Laura Dahlmeier three penalty loops and had to rank 16 content. The actually also safe Schützin Franziska Hildebrand, in this season’s two sprint races had won, it was after five errors only 43. Good results Karolin Horchler as the Ninth and Luise Kummer as 14. . Miriam Gössner ran out after 4 penalties on place 27.

og (sid, dpa)