Katharina Hennig again achieved a top result in the third race of the Tour de Ski. The Olympic champion took sixth place over the 10 km in Oberstdorf. Sweden’s Frida Karlsson secured victory in a time of 24:53.3 minutes. Finland’s Krista Pärmäkoski was 16.6 seconds behind. Third place went to Anne Kjersti Kalvaa from Norway (+18.1 sec.)
After her unbelievable race to catch up in the pursuit, where Hennig made up 20 places and fought her way up to sixth place, the 26-year-old also showed an impressive performance in her adopted home country. The Olympic champion was 41 seconds behind Karlsson – only 20 seconds missing from the podium.
“Wasn’t easy”
Hennig was very satisfied with her top ten place: “I go out of the day with a positive feeling“Said the Olympic champion in an interview with Sportschau. With warm temperatures and rain, many runners had problems on the cross-country ski run. “It wasn’t easy to run, the conditions made it impossible to keep everything on track“, says Hennig. In the overall standings, Hennig climbed from sixth to fifth place.
No other DSV runner made it into the top 20
For the other DSV runners, the top places were far away. Katherine Sauerbrey was 25th, one place behind was Victoria Carl. Laura Gimmler finished the competition in 34th place, one rank behind the woman from Oberstdorf was Sofie Krehl. Lisa Lohman was 39th, Alexandra Lohmann 57th.