Katharina Hennig ran into the top 10 at the next drama around Norway’s cross-country skiing queen Therese Johaug and showed herself well for medal hunt with the German season.
While Johaug at the Nordic home World Cup in Trondheim in the classical crime thriller over 10 km was again wafer behind the Swede Ebba Andersson Silver, Olympic champion Hennig was good-the other DSV runners were also convinced.
Two and a half hours after the third Trondheim gold by Johannes Hösflot Kläbo, Andersson screwed up another party to the Norwegians. On Sunday, the Swede in the skiathlon had won a millimeter decision before the simultaneous Johaug, now she was 1.3 seconds ahead of the frustrated Norwegian.
The 36-year-old, who had returned after a two-year break for the World Cup season, has to continue to wait for her first gold in Trondheim and her 15th title as a whole. Bronze went to Frida Karlsson (Sweden/+12.1 seconds).
Cross -country skiing: Hennig “super happy about this place”
Hennig ran a brave race and was ultimately only 29.9 seconds behind Andersson. “I am super happy about this place, the season did not quite run according to my ideas,” said Hennig, who had to fight with health problems during the winter. The 28-year-old from Oberwiesenthal was in Beijing Olympiafunctions in the Zehner in 2022, which was also classic at the time.
In Trondheim, she is supposed to focus primarily on the season on Friday, which according to head coach Peter Schlickenrieder offers “the only realistic medal chance”.
For this, Victoria Carl should also be set, which remained a little below her possibilities on Tuesday as 14th (+1: 33.6 minutes). Pia Fink was a good eleventh (+1: 06.8), Katherine Sauerbrey 16. (+1: 46.7). “The waking team reacted well again after the men’s race. We risked it, I thought that was good,” said Schlickenrieder.