Catching up in the second run: Melanie Hasler celebrates her podium debut in the monobob

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Melanie Hasler launches the World Cup season for bobsledders in La Plagne with a bang. The 25-year-old from Aargau reached the podium in second place in the monobob in the French Alps. It is the former top 3 ranking in this discipline for the former volleyball player, after she previously stood on the podium four times in the two-man bobsled in the World Cup. Hasler, who was in seventh place after the first round, only had to admit defeat to the American Kaysha Love, who celebrated her first World Cup victory as a pilot with a lead of 21 hundredths over the Swiss.

Sebastian Stalder is successfully catching up in the pursuit at the World Championships in Hochfilzen. The Zurich native scored 19 of 20 targets at the shooting range and climbed from 30th to 17th place. Slightly behind was Joscha Burkhalter, in 21st place and also with one penalty, the second best of the Swiss team plagued by illness-related absences. Four Norwegians line up at the very front. Johannes Thingnes Bö, the ruler of recent years, achieves a kind of liberation. The 17-time world champion celebrates his first victory in the fifth individual race of the season, ahead of Johannes Dale and his brother Tarjei.

Swiss sports director Nadine Fähndrich cannot start the sprint in the classic technique in Östersund. The 28-year-old from Lucerne has to miss central Sweden due to illness. According to Swiss-Ski, gastrointestinal problems prevent the four-time individual World Cup winner from participating. (SDA/SME)

Source : Blick