Seleton: Ferstädt acquires Olympic ticket

Skeleton pilot Anna Fernstädt from Berchtesgaden has sold her ticket for the Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang (9th place). till 25. February) is solved.

At the World Cup in St.. Moritz took fifth place for the 21-year-old and met the DOSB standard with her third top-eight result of the winter. In addition to Fernstädt, Tina Hermann (Königssee) and world champion Jacqueline Lölling (Winterberg) will be present in South Korea.

“This is madness, I feel really good,”Fernstädt told ZDF. National coach Jens Müller spoke of a “very, very strong performance with two almost flawless runs. In total, all three girls have increased extremely compared to the training. At the start they got the most out of it, and in the track, it was very good.”

One week after the German triple victory in Altenberg, the German team also achieved a strong result on the only natural ice rink in the World Cup calendar. Tina Hermann took second place, missing 42 hundredths of a second on winner Janine Flock (Austria).

Jacqueline Lölling, candidate for the first Olympic victory for German skeleton sports in Pyeongchang, took sixth place. With that, she missed her third start in St. Peter’s. Moritz a podium position.

“Unfortunately, Tina had some minor mistakes in both races. Perhaps even more would have been possible,”said Jens Müller:”We did well as a team. St. Moritz has not traditionally been our train – but the result was fine.”