After World Cup bronze with a season
Biathlon star open: “Never had such pain”
02/22/2025 – 5:20 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
While the women’s quartet missed the relay medal, the men ran to bronze. The final runner came to his limit.
When he finally crossed the finish line, Philipp Horn put together. The German final runner of the men’s relay at the biathlon World Cup could no longer. Horn lay on the ground with his face in the snow and pumped while his teammates stormed on him and celebrated him. The 30-year-old had secured the precious metal with his flawless shooting in the standing attack and left the Swedes behind.
“It was really the hardest round that I ever had,” Horn recalled at the ARD microphone. “I gave everything and much more. At the highest point I thought that I could no longer make it around the curve.” But horn bit on the teeth and overcame this hurdle. “I’ve never had pain and nothing in my head at the finish line. I had to get along back on life again.”
The four German biathletes made a total of ten mistakes, three of them went to Horn’s account, which needed three reliefs in the lying attack to avoid the penalty round. “I was almost a bit shocked because three went next to it. With one I thought: ‘This is not a problem, I have relegated.’ With three it was tight, I really had to pull together. “
Afterwards he fought with some negative thoughts, but was able to focus in the last shooting. “You don’t have the chance often in life, and if so, then today,” thought Horn.
The final runner was able to take the chance and thus won the first medal in the men’s team since silver 2020 in Antholz. The World Cup will be completed on Sunday with the mass start races of women over 12.5 kilometers (1.45 p.m.) and the men over 15 km (4:05 p.m./both in the live ticker at T-online).