The 22-year-old Johanna Puff celebrates her World Cup premiere at the singles on Tuesday. The European champion replaces the more experienced Sophia Schneider.
One day before the individual race of women at the biathlon World Cup in Lenzerheide, the DSV announces a change of personnel: Johanna Puff will surprisingly give her World Cup debut. The 22-year-old Bavarian recently won gold at the European Championship in Martell. In this event, only the second biathlon series usually takes part-but with the European Championship success, the biathlon Youngster ultimately secured the last World Cup ticket.
Puff could not fulfill the World Cup standard
In the World Cup, she was only in the German team at the start in the German team, but could not fulfill the World Cup standard in Finland. She also received her place in the World Cup squad because the Thuringian Vanessa Voigt had to stop her season prematurely because of an illness and the consequences. The German contingent is led in the individual of persecution world champion Franziska Preuss, who can win her fourth medal in Lenzerheide. In addition to Puff, Selina Grotian and Julia Tannheimer are also at the start.
On the other hand, the much more experienced Sophia Schneider, who has already won two World Cup medals with the season in the past. Schneider had become World Cup eleventh in the sprint and had ranked 23rd in the persecution.
Zobel replaces Nawrath
There were also personnel changes among men: the battered Philipp Nawrath has to take a break. David Zobel was nominated for the 32-year-old.