Winter sports: Snowboardcrossers miss podium finishes in Bansko

The German snowboardcrossers have the podium finishes at the penultimate World Cup station before the Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang (9th place). till 25. February) missed. Paul Berg (Konstanz) and Martin Nörl (Adlkofen) finished in seventh and tenth place in the sprint race in Bansko, Bulgaria, with three kickers over 330 meters. The French Olympic champion Pierre Vaultier celebrated his 21st birthday. Success in the World Cup.

Charlotte Bankes (France) won the women’s event for the third time. Hanna Ihedioha (Dingolfing), who did not qualify for the Olympics, retired from the quarter-finals.

Jana Fischer (Löffingen) and Konstantin Schad (Miesbach), who hold a ticket to South Korea, were missing in Bulgaria. Fischer went to school at home, Schad gave up the World Cup on the advice of the doctors after an infection in order to get fit for the Olympic dress rehearsal next weekend at Feldberg.