Cross-country sensation at the Olympics: women surprisingly win gold - coach in tears

Created: 02/16/2022, 15:26

By: Antonio Jose Riether

Olympia: Germany celebrated a sensation in the team sprint in cross-country skiing.

Two German athletes trumped in the women's final and won gold.

• Olympic Winter Games in Beijing: The classic team sprints for women and men.

• The German cross-country skiers Katharina Hennig and Victoria Carl sensationally secured gold.

• The German men already failed to qualify for the final.

Olympia: cross-country team competition in the live ticker - final result:

1.45 p.m .:

These are exactly the moments we love about the Olympic Games: The German biathlon relay was interviewed after their bronze race.

Exactly at this point in time, the German cross-country duo created the gold sensation - our biathlon ladies experienced the crazy moment and then completely freaked out on live TV.

Update, 11.15 a.m .:

On his 50th birthday, Peter Schlickenrieder, national coach of German cross-country skiers, had every reason to be happy.

After the men's team competition, the man from Tegernsee stood at the ARD microphone and praised his protégés Katharina Hennig and Victoria Carl, who won gold in the women's competition.

"It's a Dream.

I have to pull myself together or I'll start crying all over again.

I could cry all day.

The Vicky made a tactically great race.

She pulled it off in a world-class manner, chapeau!” said Schlickenrieder, who shed tears of joy.

"It's actually a bit of a dream, I really have to pull myself together not to start crying again, it's just a brutal dream."

Olympia: cross-country team competition in the live ticker – Carl and Hennig storm into first place

Update, 10:37 a.m .: And it will actually be the gold medal for the German team!

Carl and Hennig are in each other's arms, after a strong fighting performance they surprisingly take the top podium in the team sprint after a sovereign qualification.

Carl, Sundling and Nepryaeva are heading for the home stretch in the final sprint, but the German seems to be dividing up her strength well today.

About a hundred meters from the finish, Victoria Carl overtakes her opponents from Sweden and Russia and ultimately secures the medal.

Olympia: cross-country team competition in the live ticker - Hennig and Carl sprint to the medal places

Update, 10:34 a.m .:

Strong final sprint from Hennig!

It still looks like a medal, because the German hands over to Carl in the lead.

They are followed by Finland's Krista Pärmäkoski, followed by Diggins from the USA, Sweden with Sundling and Nepryaeva from Russia.

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Update, 10:32 a.m .:

Carl is showing strong in her second round!

In the hot phase of the race, Finland and Germany are ahead, the DSV athletes could get the next medal!

Behind them, Sweden, the USA and the Russian team are still putting the pressure on.

Update, 10:29 a.m .:

And Hennig continues to step on the gas, now she makes up another rank and increases the chances of a medal for Germany.

She passes second for Carl, who now has to give it her all.

Five relays fight for the medals in front...

Olympia: cross-country team competition in the live ticker – Hennig is in good shape

Update, 10:27 a.m .:

Germany is in eighth place, Victoria Carl was losing more and more connection to the field.

Then Katharina Hennig comes onto the trail and catapults herself into the top three for the time being.

The Norwegian Tiril Udnes Weng, on the other hand, experienced a broken stick and lost a lot of time.

Update, 10:22 a.m .:

Carl continues to lose time.

Finland's Krista Pärmäkoski, who takes over for Niskanen, is currently in the lead, while Maiken Caspersen Falla, a big name for the current runner-up Norway, is also up front.

Rissland is currently in third place.

Update, 10:18 a.m .:

The teams are still close after the first 1.5 kilometers, only the French and the Polish are a little behind.

Hennig changes heavily to Carl, who loses some ground.

Update, 10:16 a.m .:

Germany starts with Katharina Hennig, who immediately joins the top group.

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Olympia: cross-country team competition in the live ticker – Hennig and Carl fight for medals

Update, 10.12 a.m .:

The German duo of Katharina Hennig and Victoria Carl will start in a few minutes, who were able to prevail in the morning’s qualification with a four-second lead over the US runners Rosie Brennan and Jessie Diggins.

Behind the US women, Austria with Teresa Stadlober and Lisa Unterweger and Switzerland with Nadine Fähndrich and Laurien van der Graaf also made it into the final of the ten best teams.

Update from February 16, 10:04 a.m .:

The German men fail to qualify for the decisive run, also because Brugger loses his skis and has to cross the finish line on one leg.

In the end, Germany only finished twelfth.

The women, on the other hand, easily qualify for their final, which begins at 10.15 a.m.

Update from February 16, 9:53 a.m .:

Germany is currently far behind in the second men’s semifinals, the two DSV athletes Albert Kuchler and Janosch Brugger are currently in eleventh out of thirteen places in the fight for the decisive run.

However, all teams are still close together.

First report from February 16th:

Zhangjiakou - On Wednesday morning German time, the qualification of the cross-country skiers took place first.

A German duo was able to qualify in the first semi-final for the decision at 10.15 a.m.

Katharina Hennig and Victoria Carl were the fastest team among the first four of the 13 teams and will definitely take part in the final.

The 25 and 26-year-old athletes confidently prevailed over the teams from the USA, Austria and Switzerland.

Olympia: cross-country team competition in the live ticker - Hennig and Carl qualified confidently

There were some complications before qualifying, because Victoria Carl replaced Katherine Sauerbrey in the team sprint at short notice.

Although Sauerbrey was actually nominated by team boss Peter Schlickenrieder for the two-man team, the Thuringian is said not to have felt one hundred percent fit.

Due to the load control, she decided against the start and left it to Carl.

Both had surprisingly won silver in the relay on Saturday together with Katharine Hennig and Sofie Krehl.

In today's team sprint, the task is simple and clear: both participants each run a 1.5-kilometer lap three times, Sauerbrey probably didn't feel up to it.

Olympia: cross-country team competition in the live ticker - men's qualification from 9.40 a.m

In bright sunshine and freezing cold in the Chinese city of Zhangjiakou, which is around 100 kilometers northwest of Beijing, the men will also contest their final at 10.45 a.m.

Here, too, the German men must first survive the qualification.

This takes place at 9.40 a.m., the German duo Albert Kuchler and Janosch Brugger want to prevail against the USA, Russia, Austria and Switzerland, among others.

The two German cross-country skiers would also have to finish in the top four teams in their Olympic semi-finals in order to secure their place in the final.

In addition, the two teams that finish behind them with the best times take part in the final run.

(ajr)