Drama in the ice channel: Julia Taubitz crowns a tobogganing queen!

Drama in the ice channel: Julia Taubitz crowns a tobogganing queen!

In the exciting final of the Rodeln World Cup 2024-2025 in Yanqing, China, the German athlete Julia Taubitz secured the overall victory and thus the coveted crystal ball. With a convincing appearance, she secured first place in the last race with a total time of 1: 58.926. Taubitz, which completed in the overall ranking with 657 points, overtook the Austrians Madeleine Egle (629 points) and Lisa Schulte (620 points), which were in the lead before the decisive race, such as laola1.at reported.

breakdowns for the favorites

in the decisive run shook egle and trained the nerves. Both were far behind after the first round. Egle finally ended in ninth place (+1,271 seconds), while Schulte approved a few places in the second round and landed in sixth place (+0,898 seconds) as the best Austrian. Even the other Austrians Barbara Allmaier and Hanna Prock could not bring themselves into the front places, took the ranks seven and eight, while Taubitz and Natalie Maag (second place) asserted themselves in the podium, according to the conclusion of oasport.it .

The dramatic turns in the competition caused excitement and had the placements in the overall World Cup turned upside down. Taubitz, who can now celebrate their fifth overall World Cup victory, brought the Austrian hopes into shards, while their impressive performance and the carelessness of the favorites made the emotions boil.