Experience can be a valuable treasure in sport. Franziska Preuß has plenty of this, hundreds of races have already run, so she knows that it can sometimes be smarter to do without speed in favor of the precision at the shooting range. And so on Sunday afternoon Preuß stood on the black mat in the Roland-Arena on Sunday afternoon in Switzerland, in front of thousands of spectators in the stands, but she did not let herself. Instead, Preuss worked for shot for the greatest success in her career. The reward: world champion.
20 slices, 20 goals, that was hardly possible in this race. And that it would be the persecution in which Franziska Preuss, 30, wins her first World Cup title in a single race is actually only consistent: it has been close to the heels for so many years, with the smell of Medals already in the nose. “It was really the perfect race today. And that at a World Cup – madness, ”said Preuss. In 2015 she won the season in Kontiolahti Gold, now Prussia was achieved in the third race the third success in Lenzerheide and finally the title. At the start, she was able to cheer bronze with the mixed relay, in the sprint silver. That was her first in a single race in ten years and therefore a liberation for Prussia. “The key was serenity today,” she said, the “tailwind through the silver medal” carried it to gold.
ExclusiveMagdalena Neuner in an interview
:“Sometimes I had a very obedient with my life”
After winning almost everything in the biathlon, Magdalena Neuner withdrew in 2012 after just six years. Now she tells of depressive phases in the hotel alone, but also of the value of humor – and the special value of the earplugs at that time.
The persecution took place in front of the most atmospheric World Cup backdrop in Switzerland: 13,500 spectators had come to the Roland-Arena. The Swiss Lena Häcki-Groß also let the audience freak out, as she dueled as the worst competitor with Prussia for the title. Switzerland has never been with the Biathlon World Cup won a medal. “It was perfect to be the first rounds with which Lena,” said Preuss, “it couldn’t be better to have the best mood in the stadium. I just tried to absorb the mood, enjoy the race. ”Both were traveling together until the third shooting, then Häcki-Groß had to go to the penalty and set off. In the fourth round it was nervous on Prussia when the German appeared at the shooting range in front of the thousands of spectators. She had been annoyed by one mistake in the sprint – “the risk was a bit unnecessary,” she said – now she did better. “I already had a plan that I minimize the risk today, make my race,” said Preuss. And her victory then came up with a demonstration: When she went to the trail for the last time, her pursuers just took their weapons off their shoulder.
The German lead was so great that the supervisors were not able to give her the competitors in the long term because they had not yet passed the time. And then it was also the opportunity that on the way to the destination you could be pressed in your hand. “It was really a pleasure,” said Preuss. 39 seconds after her, Elvira Öberg scurried from Sweden, in front of sprint winner Justine Braisaz-Bouchet from France. The French woman shot three times.
With biathlete Prussian in Lenzerheide the tears
And then the German hymn was played for the first time in Lenzerheide, when tears ran over the face at Prussia. She is the first German world champion in the persecution since Denise Herrmann-Wick 2019 in Östersund. Overall, it is her tenth World Cup medal. For many years she had just missed the leap to the top or was sick in bed. This season she finally got through the races healthy after an operation on the sinuses, promptly it worked with the lead in the overall World Cup.
On Tuesday, the next race for Preuss is coming up with the singles, but the new world champion didn’t even want to think that far. “This is a dream day,” she said. You have to enjoy one. And then you saw that she had already been well prepared for this day: only on the pull -out finger the nail was painted: in black, red, gold.
#Biathlon #world #champion #Preuss #slices #hits #gold
