The biathlete from Germany will race in the pursuit in Antholz Second behind Dorothea Wierer. The Luge-doubles Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken win Gold at the world Championships.

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Biathlon, Antholz: double Olympic champion Laura Dahlmeier ran at Biathlon world Cup in Antholz in the pursuit. The 25-Year-old had to give in on Saturday after a strong performance in only a local hero, Dorothea Wierer with six seconds behind beaten. Dahlmeier made a mistake, and won in the final round against the Italian Lisa Vittozzi, the shot like your Italian team colleague Wierer two errors, clear. Vittozzi came out 16.2 seconds behind Wierer.

The seven-time world champion Dahlmeier made a further step back to old strength and missed their first win for over a year. It is now considered one of the favorites in the mass start on Sunday.

second place secured Dahlmeier, not winning only in the first standing shoot, a disc, a commencement of a rise just before the end. After the part kirchnerin was stopped after the fourth place in the Sprint still totally exhausted in the finish, she showed up completely refreshed. For the other four Germans, it was not enough for a placement in the Top 15.

Alpine skiing, Kitzbühel: in The Slalom classic in Kitzbühel has missed Felix Neureuther, the front placement Once more. Three days before the world Cup dress rehearsal in Schladming, Germany’s best ski racers are recorded as the Eleventh, but a small upward trend, even if he was removed from the top almost two seconds. The victory on the Ganslernhang the young Frenchman Clement Noel, the celebrated to Wengen for the second success in the world Cup consecutively repeated on Saturday. Second, the Austrian Marcel Hirscher, third Frenchman Alexis Pinturault.

sledding, WM: Luge-doubles Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken (Ilsenburg/Suhl) have defended their world title successfully. In the world in Winterberg, there is the Thuringian won Championships on the Saturday before the Olympic Champions Tobias Wendl/Tobias Arlt (Berchtesgaden/Königssee), 78 thousandths of the Top two Duos split up after two runs. The Bronze medal went to the Austrian Thomas Steu/Lorenz Koller, the occupied local hero Robin Geueke/David Gamm, only the 14. Place. For Eggert/Benecken it was the second world Cup title, they crowned their strong nacholympische season: on Friday, they had won the Gold in the less-important sprint competition. Also in the world Cup, the two present this Winter scores and are on the verge of winning the overall standings.

ski jumping Rasnov: ski jumper Katharina Althaus flew for the sixth Time in the recent eight competitions on the podium. With a second place in the Romanian Rasnov, the 22-year-old Colonel Carinthian group is made up of a lost but in the battle for the overall world Cup to lead on their rival Maren Lundby (Norway), which was not hit in Transylvania again. With jumps to 94.0 and 95.0 m, as well as 247,8 points won by Olympic champion Lundby scores before the Olympia the second Althaus (236,9/91,5+93,0), the third hint was thin behind the Queen, the Japanese Sara Takanashi (to 236.8). Juliane Seyfarth (Ruhla) was Eighth with fourth place, Sochi-Olympic champion Carina Vogt (Degenfeld). In the overall world Cup Althaus leads with 702 points, just ahead of Lundby (688), both now have three wins of the season on the account. With a victory in the second to Jump in Rasnov on Sunday (12.30 PM) would pull out of the Scandinavian past.

ski jumping, Sapporo: have missed The German ski jumpers the podium at the world Cup in Sapporo, Japan clear. Stephan Leyhe landed on Saturday with jumps on 131,5 and 126 meters as the best DSV-eagle on the ninth, directly behind him, the tour-Second Markus eisenbichler with jumps was placed on the 133 and 130 meters. Olympic winner Andreas wellinger after his training break as a 13. it’s a decent performance. The victory went to Austria’s Top Athlete Stefan Kraft. Second, the Pole Kamil Stoch, the improved with a fabulous jump at 148.5 metres up the hill record is equal to four and a half meters. Third, the Norwegian Robert Johansson.