The biathlon World Cup 2025 in Lenzerheide has successfully started from a German perspective. The bronze medal jumped out in the mixed relay. With Laura Dahlmeier and Denise Herrmann-Wick, two DSV legends found words.
Selina Grotian made a total of four relegates in the mixed relay as a German starting runner, but kept the nerves and cleared the windows that stopped.
“I think she did it very well. It wasn’t easy for her,” biathlon expert Laura Dahlmeier praised the 20-year-old on “ZDF”. Dahlmeier and her colleague Denise Herrmann-Wick also emphasized the strong term of Grotian, who was the fastest way to travel in the trail among all starting runners.
The highlights for the bronze coup in the video:
Preuss then delivered a solid performance with two releases. The overall World Cup-Couping end of her race “tackled cleverly, is not going to get rid of full speed, but has divided it quite well,” analyzed Herrmann-Wick.
German biathlon-mixed masters tricky situations
Philipp Nawrath experienced a tricky situation in his standing attack when he had to meet all three relegates to prevent a penalty round. The 32-year-old ultimately presented himself nervous and kept the German mixed relay on the medal course.
“It is difficult if you realize that you go out and you have to meet you now,” said Dahlmeier: “He has remained calm, but of course it’s a shame that he doesn’t all with the first five shots Has hit slices, but that it just comes to the three loading. “
Therefore, it was “tactically wise” to send Nawrath to the race in the third position, said Dahlmeier. “He can play out his running strength and then Justus Strelow comes back,” says seven-time biathlon world champion.
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Strelow finally stays error -free as the final runner. The 28-year-old went into the last round as a second place. Here it got exciting again. So Strelow had to let the Czechs Michal Krcmár pass, but stayed in front of Johannes Thingnes Bö and saved the bronze medal into the finish with a 2.7 second lead on Norway.
“Justus Strelow really gave everything. This is really extremely hard when the legs burn and you know that the Norwegians and the Swedes come behind you,” said Dahlmeier.
It was the first World Cup medal for the German mixed relay since 2019.
“It’s just a great start. It is easy for the entire team to prove that you can do it,” emphasized Herrmann-Wick. The tactics in the line -up “fully opened”. “This is really terrific and an entire team inspires from the start,” analyzed the two-time biathlon world champion.