Hall and Church on two and three
Second and third place went to Bradley Hall from Great Britain (+ 0.42 seconds) ahead of Hunter Church from the USA (+ 0.46 seconds). After the first round, the two were still in fourth and fifth place, but pushed past the Germans Johannes Lochner and Justin Kripps from Canada.
Friedrich now on the podium 101 times
Friedrich celebrated the 101st World Cup podium and the 65th victory of his career. When the conditions deteriorated in the second run with snowfall and wind, the Friedrich quartet could not bring top speed to the track. Of the top drivers, the Saxon was still the fastest – Friedrich set the fastest time in both races. In the second run he was also the fastest at the start with 5.08 seconds; Hall set the fastest time in the first run (5.09 seconds).
Lochner falls back to fourth place
After the first round it looked like a German one-two: At halftime, Johannes Lochner was in second place, 0.20 seconds behind. The Bavarian, who was able to snap off the track record in Winterberg in two on Saturday, lost too much time in the second run in the upper part of the track. Lochner was only fourth (+ 0.47 seconds) with Florian Bauer, Christian Rasp and Christopher Weber.
Lochner: “Wrong choice made”
After the race, Lochner knew what the decisive tenths of a second had cost him: “I made the wrong choice with the runners again with the snow. It was actually said that it would be good weather and fast. Now it is snowing. I have an iron under there, I know that it won’t work. It’s a shame, but we know we have more potential and can defeat a candidate like the Church and Brad “said the 31-year-old.
Oats only tenth
The third German sledge with Christoph Hafer and the pushers Michael Salzer, Christian Hammers and Tobias Schneider didn’t get any good rides. The quartet already lost a lot of time at the start (5.28 seconds / 5.20 seconds) and did not get the sled through the track properly. After eleventh place in the first round, Hafer improved to tenth place (+ 1.27 seconds).
“If, if, if”
After the race, the Upper Bavarian oat was annoyed: “We definitely have more plans, there is no question about that”said the 29-year-old, explaining his deficit. “When you see the difference of eight hundredths of a second at the start, you have to say that we had bad luck in the first run, with the start lane, with the snow. Yes, it means if, if, if. tight this year.“
Dirk Hofmeister
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As of: January 9th, 2022, 4:03 pm