Olympia 2018: Silver and Bronze for German Snowboarders

The snowboarders Selina Jörg and Ramona Hofmeister win two medals on the historic day for the Czech Ester Ledecka.

Selina Jörg and Ramona Hofmeister celebrated silver and bronze as if it were gold – only the high-flyer Ester Lecka was too strong as expected. On the historic day of the now two-time Olympic champion from the Czech Republic, however, the two German medal hopefuls held up impressively to the great pressure. In the last competition of the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, the snowboarders won two medals as four years ago in Sochi.

“I’m more than satisfied,”said Joerg,”silver is unbelievable, silver is like gold to me. Also association president Hanns-Michael Hölz was enthusiastic about his strong women” I think this is the hottest number you can imagine. with our little bandage to show you how high you can go.”

In Sochi, Anke Kartens, today’s Wöhrer, and Amelie Kober also won silver and bronze in the parallel slalom, which has meanwhile been canceled out of the program, for one reason: Ester Ledecka, world champion, almost unbeatable – and now the first Olympic champion in two sports at one and the same Winter Games. To celebrate the day, the Czech team turned its white jackets around – the lining glowed golden.

“The Ester was again a number in its own right today,” said Jörg, who in turn did not care about the colour of the medal. The most important thing was that she finally had one after finishing fourth at the 2010 Olympics and a fourth place at the 2015 World Championships.

Indeed, nothing could be done about Ledecka. The Czech, who had already sensationally won the Super-G of the alpine ski racers in Pyeongchang, only defeated Hofmeister in the semi-finals – but the 21-year-old fell from Bischofswiesen. In the final, the world champion won 0.46 seconds ahead of Jörg, Hofmeister won the fight for bronze against Alena Sawarsina (Olympic athletes from Russia).

Joerg and Hofmeister cheered enthusiastically in the finish area as if they had both won gold. They shook and embraced each other – Ledecka, who as usual was rather distanced, was also embraced. Through Jörg and Hofmeister, the Snowboarding Association Germany has achieved the goal of two to three medals that had been set before the Olympic Games.

The men couldn’t keep up with the glittering success of the women. Stefan Baumeister retired in the quarter-finals against Zan Kosir (Slovenia), who later won the bronze medal, but finished in a respectable sixth place in the final classification. As expected, the Swiss Nevin Galmarini won gold – silver went surprisingly and under the frenetic jubilation of thousands of spectators to the South Korean Lee Sang Ho.

Of the other German starters, only Carolin Langenhorst had survived the qualification in the morning. She was only 0.02 seconds behind Ina Maschik (Austria), who was defeated by Hofmeister in the quarter-finals shortly afterwards. Langenhorst remained in ninth place in the final classification.

Anke Wöhrer missed the K-o. round of the best 16 to 21st place. clearly. Claudia Riegler (Austria), world champion of 2015, also fell by the wayside. Patrick Bussler and Alexander Bergmann also clearly passed the last sixteen in positions 25 and 31.