Etiket: Alpine skiing
Skier Glötzner suffers a bruised shinbone during training
Yanqing (AP) – Skier Christoph Glötzner had to forego the start in the giant slalom at the Paralympics in Beijing after a training crash. The 18-year-old from Neumarkt in der…
Straßer keeps a mini-chance of overall victory
Ski racer Linus Straßer finished ninth at the World Cup in Flachau and thus kept at least a small chance of overall victory in the slalom classification. However, he is…
Alpine skiing: Straßer keeps a small ball chance
Flachau (dpa) – The Norwegians showed great emotions, Linus Straßer took note of his next top ten placement quite soberly. The Munich ski racer finished ninth at the World Cup…
Alpine skiing: Straßer keeps a small ball chance
Flachau (dpa) – The Norwegians showed great emotions, Linus Straßer took note of his next top ten placement quite soberly. The Munich ski racer finished ninth at the World Cup…
Forster brings first German gold
Yanqing (AP) – With a furious second run, monoskier Anna-Lena Forster won Germany’s first gold at the Paralympics in Beijing. Despite being six seconds behind after the Super-G, the 26-year-old…
No gold in sight: Forster only fourth after combination run
Yanqing (AP) – The hoped-for first gold medal for monoskier Anna-Lena Forster at the Paralympics in Beijing is a long way off. The 2018 winner, who started the race as…
Beucher “joyfully surprised” by the start of the Paralympics
Yanqing (dpa) – Germany’s association president Friedhelm Julius Beucher drew a more than positive conclusion from the first competition weekend at the Winter Paralympics in Beijing. “We were so happily…
Paralympics in Beijing – just missed gold: Forster wins para silver again
Yanqing (AP) – Second start, second silver medal: monoskier Anna-Lena Forster had to admit defeat to her Japanese rival Momoka Muraoka on the second day of competition at the Paralympics…
Forster wins first German Paralympics medal
Yanqing (AP) – Monoskier Anna-Lena Forster has won the first German medal at the Paralympics in Beijing. The 26-year-old finished second in the downhill on Saturday and secured silver on…
Ski Federation: No Russian and Belarusian athletes
Munich (dpa) – Out of solidarity with Ukraine, the World Ski Association Fis has excluded Russian and Belarusian athletes from the rest of the World Cup season. “In order to…