The best German biathlete is impressively back in the fight for yellow jersey in the end of the season. The basis is the basis.
Franziska Preuß has expanded the lead overall at the Biathlon World Cup at the Pokljuka with her eleventh season podium.
The 31-year-old came in third place in the shortened single over 12.5 kilometers thanks to the flawless shooting and enlarged her upholstered on Lou JeanMonnot from 36 to 60 points.
The French (+1: 43.2 minutes) ended up seventh in the fifth last season race with two shooting errors. It won her flawless compatriot Julia Simon in front of the Swede Hanna Öberg (1 error/+39.1 seconds).
Prussia “very relieved”
“I am very relieved that it worked again. That was important to get through cleanly. It was hard on the track. It was a fight at the back, ”said Preuss.
To hide the stand in the overall World Cup is “already a challenge. But when I’m at the start, I don’t think about it. I stand on it that every race is a fight and you can’t give anything. “
Without errors when shooting
Prussia started two days after her 31st birthday on a deep course, but pushed himself into the top field with a flawless opening series.
The Bavarian also showed herself in the number two and three nerve -wracking, so they kept their chance of the podium – and crowned her performance with another flawless series at the last shooting. Most recently, Preuss had lost 56 points of her advantage in Nove Mesto with ranks 15 and 13.
So it went with the other Germans
For the triumph in the individual World Cup, her fifth third place of the season was no longer enough, JeanMonnot saved 31 points.
Selina Grotian (3 errors/+3: 11.9) suffered a setback in the fight for the blue jersey of the best U23 runner with a place beyond the top ten.
Sophia Schneider (4/+4: 49.4) and Julia Tannheimer (7/+7: 20.2) each experienced weak days. The individual was shortened by a total of 2.5 kilometers due to “heavy rain” and “warm wind” and preferred to the morning.
The only chance to collect points on the Slovenian plateau remains the mass start of 12.5 kilometers early on Saturday (1:35 p.m.). On Sunday the single mixed (12.05 p.m.) and the mixed season (2:50 p.m./everything ZDF and Eurosport) are on the program. At the World Cup final on the Holmenkollen it is serious for Prussia in sprint, persecution and another mass start.