Melanie Hasler lost yet another World Championship spot at her home in St. Moritz in the fourth round of the monopop.
Medals were already out of reach for Melanie Hassler in sixth place and a huge deficit after the first two races on Saturday. And there was no improvement on the racetrack on Sunday in St. Moritz. As at the Olympic Games in Beijing, the woman from Aargau took seventh place in the monopop.
Hassler, who was handicapped after injuring her left hand in practice, ended up with a 23rd hundredth lead over Canada’s Cynthia Appiah in the final fourth round despite riding strong and racing to catch up on the bottom.
The 24-year-old will stand a better chance of winning a medal next weekend, when last week’s European Championships runner-up will compete in the two-man bobsleigh alongside tanker Nadia Pasternak. Martina Fontaneff, who started on the second day from ninth place, also lost and had to pick up tenth place.
Two Germans on the podium
German Laura Nolte became the world champion. The 24-year-old won the duel of the generation with favorite Kylie Humphries (37) with surprising confidence, after 4 runs Nolte was four tenths of a second ahead of the defending champion from the USA. With Lisa Backowitz, another German completed the podium.
Live webcast only, srf.ch/sport, 29.1.23, 10:00 a.m.; czu/ agencies
Most read articles
Go left
Go to the right
“Creator. Troublemaker. Reader. Tv nerd. Proud beer advocate. Unable to type with boxing gloves on. Introvert. Certified zombie practitioner. Thinker.”
Social login
To register we need additional information about you.
{* #socialRegistrationForm *} {* firstName *} {* lastName *} {* emailAddress *} {* displayName *} {* mobile *} {*addressCity *}
{*/ socialRegistrationForm *}