Historical coup for German winter sports phenomenon: “It’s so unreal”

Nathalie Armbruster is the winner of the Combination World Cup

On the way to the Abitur, Nathalie Armbruster is the first German to get the overall World Cup in the Nordic combination – and also surprises itself.

On Saturday Nathalie Armbruster wrote history in Oslo, from Tuesday she wrote mathematics and Spanish in Freudenstadt: Immediately after her sporting freestyle as the first German winner of the overall World Cup, the annoying school duty caught up with the high-flyer of the Nordic combination.

“There are exams again next week,” said the 19-year-old: “I am happy when I have a hook on the Abitur.” The Black Forest made the hook of a sporting success, which was completely unexpectedly unexpectedly for the bold optimist.

Nathalie Armbruster surprised by herself

“Wow! What a day! I can call myself the overall World Cup winner – at the age of 19, ”said Armbruster, after she had successfully defended the yellow jersey with places six and four on the final weekend of the combiners on the legendary stalle bumps:“ It is so unreal that I get the crystal ball in one year in which I did not expect it at all. ”

A year in which everything was a bit much for the young athlete, who was already 17 vice world champion: the immense effort for the double sports, the tinkering at the Abitur at a level, the first World Cup victory, the tremor for the future of the combination, which is not in the Olympic program for women in 2026, the unusual contact with the media, and recently made her relationship with the Swiss combiner Nico Zarucchi (21) public.

Tears after disappointment at World Cup

All of this did not go past crossbowers without a trace: two weeks before her coup from Oslo, she was sobbing 500 km north of the Trondheim ski jump, nibbling violently on the World Cup disappointment (seventh twice in the singles). And now everything dissolved in sheer joy.

“A barrel load has fallen away from me here. I didn’t even know that I was wearing such a load, ”said Armbruster, who as a teenager fits into a great German ancestral gallery: the overall World Cup only won the“ Alpha-Elche ”Hermann Weinbuch, Ronny Ackermann and Eric Frenzel. And since Sunday Vinzenz Geiger has also been practically determined as overall winners.

The cornucopia only in summer can enjoy the crossbower, “now with the Abitur there is a time for me, which is just as demanding as winter.” Then she no longer has to write history – math, sport and Spanish are her performance courses.

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