Langenhan triumphs: Austria's tobogganing elite under pressure!
Max Langenhan secures the victory in the 2025 World Cup in Yanqing, while Austrian tobogganists show impressive achievements.
Langenhan triumphs: Austria's tobogganing elite under pressure!
In an exciting season of the tobogganists, the Germans again demonstrated that they belong to the absolute top. Max Langenhan secured his fourth victory this winter season with an impressive run at the World Cup final in Yanqing and thus the overall victory in the World Cup. The 26-year-old Thuringian clearly had the action under control in the competition and didn't need more than a seventh place for the title. After the first run, he already drove with a minimal lead of 0.061 seconds in front of the Austrian Jonas Müller, whom he then kept at a distance in the second round. Müller ended up in second place with 0.532 seconds behind, while Langenhan's compatriot Nico Gleirscher became fifth Sports show reported.
In the double seat, the German Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt secured the large crystal ball again. The two Olympic champions made a record start in Yanqing and finished with first place, which already secured the sixth overall victory. Before they could celebrate this triumphal end, however, they had to make sure that they keep their position against the Latvian teams. In the overall ranking, they displaced Thomas Steu and Wolfgang Kindl, who took third place. Despite their weakest performance in the season, the Austrians who had triumphed the previous week again landed in the top five when they drove to third place in the season final in a tense competition Vienna.at revealed.