Snowboarder Paul Berg missed the podium at the Cross World Cup in La Molina, Spain, but forgot his disappointing Olympic performance with fourth place. The 26-year-old from Constance missed a better position after a fall in the final through no fault of his own.
Berg went down when he found out about Emanuel Perathoner, who had fallen in front of him. The Italian rattled up a little faster than Berg and finished third behind the winners Alessandro Hämmerle and Hanno Douschan (both from Austria). Berg had previously won his rounds in eighth, quarter and semi-finals. At the winter games in Pyeongchang he was only 19 after a crash in the quarter-finals. have become.
Konstantin Schad (Miesbach) retired in the quarter-finals, for Martin Nörl (Adlkofen) and Leon Beckhaus (Miesbach) was already in the last sixteen.
In the women’s event, Sochi Olympic champion Eva Samkova (Czech Republic), who had won bronze in South Korea, celebrated her ninth World Cup victory. German boarders were not at the start. In Moscow (10. March) and Veysonnaz/Switzerland (17. March) the last two World Cup races of the winter will take place.