The biathletes start at the World Cup in Nové Mesto from Thursday to Sunday. For Franziska Preuss, the overall World Cup is concerned, the men want to build on the relay success at the World Cup.
It is the first appearance after the Biathlon World Championships in Lenzerheide: From Thursday to Sunday, the biathletes will start at the World Cup in Nové Mesto in Czech. First the sprints are on the program, then Franziska Preuß, Philipp Nawrath and Co. are in demand for the persecution and relay races. You can see all races live in the sports show.
Overall victory of Preuss as “Team project”
Prussia travels to the Czech Republic. At the World Cup she had crowned her grandiose season with four medals. The upcoming World Cup weekend is now primarily about the overall World Cup project: “It is very important to me to win”said the 30-year-old on Sunday evening in the program “Blickpunkt Sport” on BR television: “That would be one of my greatest dreams if you can win something like that. This is a very high award as a athlete, if you can do it from November to March”.
The overall victory of Prussia is also a high priority for sports director Felix Bitterling. It’s about “Continue the dream in yellow”says Bitterling. In the meantime, the overall World Cup victory is to “Team project” Make everyone in the team would help support Prussia. In order to fulfill the dream, Preuss has to win the fight against the strong French woman Lou JeanMonnot, who will fully attack again in Nové Mesto.
Puff and Fichtner should gain World Cup experience
The women also start with the women Selina Grotian, Sophia Schneider, Julia Tannheimer, Johanna Puff and Marlene Fichtner. The latter two are about “Get experience at the highest competition level”says Bitterling: “And around one or the other positive result – especially for the personal feeling “ take with you.
For the men, DSV Philipp Horn, Johannes Kühn, Philip Nawrath, Danilo Riethmüller, Justus Strelow and David Zobel start. German men are also likely to go into the races in the Czech Republic with a little tailwind. After all, Nawrath, Horn, Riethmüller and Kühn had surprisingly won bronze in the season.
High temperatures expected
For further successes – now in cooperation with the new head coach Tobias Reiter – the biathletes in the Czech Republic also have to fight against difficult conditions: the weather should be one “Challenge” Bitterling said: “We expect very, very high temperatures in Nové Mesto during the day.” So the athletes have to expect deep and damp snow.