Record world champion Tina Hermann will not be at the Home Skeleton World Championships in Winterberg. The athlete from WSV Königssee is missing from Christian Baude’s squad. The German head coach nominated a sextet around Olympic champion Christopher Grotheer.
Skeleton head coach Christian Baude named his squad two weeks before the home World Championships in Winterberg. After six World Cups and an internal jump-off on the World Cup track in Hochsauerland, he nominated Beijing Olympic champion Hannah Neise from BSC Winterberg, defending champion Susanne Kreher from BSC Sachsen Oberbärenburg and the 2018 Olympic silver medalist Jacqueline Pfeifer from RSG Hochsauerland. This means that record world champion Tina Hermann from WSV Königssee will not be at the start.
Grotheer, Jungk and Keisinger there
In the men’s category, Beijing Olympic champion Christopher Grotheer from BRC Thuringia received the three World Cup tickets. Olympic silver medalist Axel Jungk from BSC Sachsen Oberbärenburg and Felix Keisinger from WSV Königssee, who won bronze at the European Championships in Sigulda.
While Grotheer, Keisinger and Neise had already been nominated internally after the World Cup in Sigulda, the remaining World Cup candidates had to use up the remaining three starting places on Thursday in Winterberg. Before the title fights in Hochsauerland, the World Cup team competes in the World Cup in Altenberg, Saxony, a week earlier.