Olympic Champion Kaillie Humphries is second, Kim Kalicki is on the rostrum for the primary time
Winterberg (RWH) Bobsleigh driver Laura Nolte celebrates her second girls’s monobob victory of the season on the BMW IBSF World Cup in Winterberg (GER). At house, Nolte set the most effective time within the second race, resulting in a fourth-place victory in entrance of his followers and pals.
Olympic and World Champion Kaillie Humphries took second place (USA, 0.18 seconds behind). One hundredth of a second behind Kim Kalicki (GER, 0.19 seconds behind), she celebrated her first podium end within the feminine snow sled drivers’ solo self-discipline.
Surprisingly main after her first World Cup run in Winterberg, Switzerland’s Melanie Hasler dropped to seventh because the final starter within the remaining spherical.
Youth Olympic Champion and European Junior Champion Georgeta Popescu from Romania completed her first match within the World Cup in 14th place. U23 World Champion Viktoria Cernanska (SVK) completed her first begin on the BMW IBSF World Cup in thirteenth place.
Within the 2022/2023 BMW IBSF World Cup general standings, Kaillie Humphries (USA, 845) held the lead in opposition to Laura Nolte (Germany, 810) in 4 of the eight races. Lisa Buckwitz (GER, 754), who completed fourth at Winterberg, is third general on the World Cup midpoint.
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Laura Nolte (GER, 2021 World Championship bronze medalist).
“At the moment was very thrilling for me. I made an enormous mistake within the first race. It actually pissed me off and I assumed it value me the victory. To be sincere I nonetheless did not count on to win. I miss my followers, family and friends. Final yr we had been on the observe a lot that we’re right here at present. I used to be very joyful to see so many individuals.”
Kaillie Humphries (USA, 2021 World Champion, 2022 Olympic Champion)
“Winterberg is my hardest observe, I had a few of my worst outcomes right here. So I gladly take second place. The ladies earlier than me made it very troublesome for me to get on the rostrum and win, and now I need to do the identical. It makes us higher as athletes and makes sport higher for all nations.”
Kim Kalicki (GER, sixth place at Worlds 2021)
“Lastly a podium end in monobob too! It’s extremely tied to the beginning right here in Winterberg. My first run was superb, the second I had a bonus or two, particularly within the higher half. And naturally it took the errors of the others at present to get me on the rostrum. a part of the job.”
Pictures: IBSF / Viesturs Lacis
