Podium in Japan: skater Wenger with successful start to the season

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The skating season starts this year in Ohibiro, Japan, and from a Swiss perspective it could hardly be launched better. Livio Wenger finished third in the mass start and missed victory by three-hundredths of a second.

The 30-year-old from Lucerne only has to admit defeat to winner Bart Hoolwerf (25, Netherlands) and his Belgian namesake Bart Swings (32, Olympic champion).

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Wenger made the start of the season extremely successful after the preparation had become a rollercoaster ride. In July he broke his collarbone in a fall. The coming winter promises a lot, and for Wenger it is clear: “Gold, silver, bronze – that must be the goal now.” (ch)

Source : Blick

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