Cross-country skiing Olympic champion Katharina Hennig has run into the top field of the Tour de Ski with a splendid performance.
Cross-country skiing Olympic champion Katharina Hennig has run into the top field of the Tour de Ski with a splendid performance.
On New Year’s Day, the woman from Oberwiesenthal came sixth in the second stage, a 10-kilometer pursuit in the classic technique in Val Müstair, Switzerland. With the second best time, Hennig, who finished 28th in the sprint at the start, is now 41.9 seconds behind the winner Tiril Udnes Weng from Norway, who won a World Cup race for the first time. She prevailed in the final sprint ahead of Finland’s Kerttu Niskanen and Sweden’s Frida Karlsson.
Third stage in Oberstdorf
The third stage of the Tour de Ski takes place in Oberstdorf on Tuesday. In the Allgäu, an individual race over 10 kilometers is also on the program using classic technology.
Hennig started the race on the difficult course 1:03 minutes behind and had reduced it to 28 seconds in the meantime. When the leading group increased the pace in the second part of the race, the Saxon who lives in Oberstdorf could not get any closer.
The other German women also gave a good performance. Laura Gimmler, eighth in the sprint, finished eleventh, Sofie Krehl was 15th this time after her ninth place on New Year’s Eve and thus fulfilled the World Championship norm. Pia Fink also impressed with 19th place.
Source: Stern
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