“I’m so happy”
At 19 years: German skiing ass with historical success
15.03.2025 – 7:04 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
She is still going to school and is still overall World Cup winner: at the age of 19, the German Nathalie Armbruster achieved a historical success.
Nathalie Armbruster won the Nordic combiners’ overall World Cup for the first time. The 19 -year -old student from the Black Forest took sixth place in Oslo after a big hill jump and a run over five kilometers, thus collecting the necessary points in the penultimate competition to consolidate first.
The prestigious title is also likely to flee crossbowers over the disappointing World Cup. “I’m so happy. This is still unreal. I want to thank my family and friend. Tomorrow I will hold this ball in my hands, wow,” said Armbruster, who was close to tears, on ZDF.
Her rivals Ida Marie Hagen (Norway) and Haruka Kasai from Japan took the ranks three and nine. This was not enough to seriously put crossbowers into trouble again. Local hero Gyda Westvold Hansen won the day’s victory in the legendary Holmenkollen. “It’s just great that we women are allowed to jump on the spar,” said Armbruster after the premiere on the big hill.
In the still young history of the sport, crossbow is the first German winner of the overall World Cup. Previously, the American Tara Geraghty-Moats and twice Westvold Hansen had triumphed and in the previous year Hagen.
After a jump and the following crossing over ten kilometers of Olympic champion Vinzenz Geiger, the men. The podium completed Jarl Magnus Riiber from Norway and Austria’s Johannes Lamparter. In contrast to the women, Geiger and Co. will be on the program next week in Lahti, Finnish.