Title fights from Trondheim
Wellinger shines: as a “last Christmas tree” to World Cup silver
There is a huge increase in performance. After Andreas Wellinger’s surprising silver coup, the trainer gives permission: “Celebrate a bit.”
After his silver coup, Andreas Wellinger looked completely perplexed in the constant rain of Trondheim. While Norwegian madness raged around Wellinger with world champion Marius Lindvik, the Olympic champion summarized his World Cup success with one sentence as aptly as it is incredulously: “This is ski jumping.” Two months of crisis and criticism, in this calendar year no podium at all and now? Second place!
“I’m mega happy. It ran pretty shit eight weeks. I won silver – and definitely not lost gold,” said the 29 -year -old, who only landed 2.3 points behind the Norwegian champion Lindvik. Bronze went to Jan Hörl from Austria. National coach Stefan Horngacher, who is criticized, also made it easier at the ski jumping festival with music classics such as “Macarena”.
“I’m totally empty somehow. It was a great jump from the Andi. The boys did a great job. We worked properly,” said Horngacher on ZDF. The chief coach from Austria was hugged by the entire team after the high -class jumping. A lot of pressure dropped off everyone after the failures have become the rule since the four -hill tour.
Horngacher: reward “for the whole team”
A few days before the World Cup singles, Sven Hannawald had said at “ran.de” that the Germans had big problems with the material and technology. “And that’s why the Germans jump like the last Christmas tree at the moment,” said the TV expert. Horngacher now said that a “extremely difficult time” was behind. “The whole team has been rewarded.” Now you can “celebrate a bit”.
There wasn’t much missing, then Germany could even have cheered two medals. Karl Geiger took fourth place and just missed a big surprise. “I am proud of my performance. A fourth place at the World Cup is of course bitter,” said Geiger. The chances of such services are excellent for the further competitions. However, the change to the large hill is now.
In Wellinger’s eventful career, it is another large milestone. At the age of 18, the Ruhpoldinger had become team Olympic champion in the Russian Sochi Sotschi – followed by further medals and a sporting crash that was closely related to a cruciate ligament tear. Wellinger celebrated the biggest victories in Pyeongchang 2018 with Olympic gold in singles and in 2023 in Oberstdorf when he won the four-hill tour tour. Silver in the rain of Trondheim will also be remembered.
Hope for mixed on Wednesday
The German ski jumping team brought three medals into three competitions at the World Cup half-time and is fully in the target. Even better in shape than the men around Wellinger are the women around Selina Friday, who only won silver in singles and led the team to bronze behind Norway and Austria as the final jumper. This also gives hope for the upcoming mixed on Wednesday (4 p.m.).
“I don’t know where the coolness comes from. But it is definitely pretty nice and easy to jump here,” said Friday after her medal pack. In addition to the 23-year-old Saxon, Katharina Schmid, Juliane Seyfarth and Agnes Reisch were part of the Bronze team in Trondheim.
After the first single in the second World Cup week, there are three further decisions on the large hill for the first singles. Team jumping follows on Thursday. Finally, the individual world champion of Trondheim will be sought on Saturday.
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Source: Stern
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