BOB World Cup: Laura Nolte misses gold hat trick in Monobob at World Cup

Laura Nolte missed the World Cup Hat trick in Monobob by 44 hundredths of a second. After her catch -up with the best time in the third run, after a total of four rounds, a tiny for the third gold was missing after 2023 and 2024. So the 26 -year -old defending champion from BSC Winterberg in Lake Placid was narrowly beaten by the American Kaysha Love. Nevertheless, Nolte was happy about silver at the finish.

Third, the now two -time Mama Elana Meyers Taylor from the USA. World Cup survivor Lisa Buckwitz from BRC Thuringia, who started the season with three World Cup victories, was able to improve in fifth place on the second day of the competition. Kim Kalicki from TuS Eintracht Wiesbaden landed in tenth.

Nolte struggled primarily with the World Cup start. “I am annoyed that I ran too short in the first run, I let a little lying down at the start. But the trips were quite good, only here and there some little things that add up,” said the two-man Olympic champion of Beijing, who was 0.25 seconds behind Love after two runs and was only third behind the Austrian Katrin Beierl.

The Buckwitz, who had traveled as an overall winner in the World Cup, was unable to build on her best seasonal achievements on Mount van Hoevenberg, which has the highest number worldwide with 20 curves. Already at the World Cup she got to the point: “I knew that it would be difficult here in Lake Placid, it’s not like on a home track in Winterberg or Altenberg.” In the last run, she managed the best round.