Austria's Nordic combiners cheer over gold in the junior World Cup start!

Austria's Nordic combiners cheer over gold in the junior World Cup start!

Lake Placid, USA - Austria's Nordic combiners celebrated a sensational start at the Junior World Cup in Lake Placid! In the team Sprint, Paul Walcher and Andreas Gfrerer secured the gold medal and gave their competition no way in the race. They were already at the top after jumping, and in the subsequent race they confirmed their dominance with a sovereign victory. "It is cool that it worked out like this today," said Walcher and Gfrerer at the finish, "we did a really good job on both the ski jump and on the trail." This is considered a crucial step towards a successful competition trip, since the team sprint is decisive for the upcoming World Cup season, such as laola1.at reported.

Especially Walcher, who has already started several times in the World Cup, praised this success: "Today was just perfect. With a great jump I started as a leading one and divided the race perfectly. The gold medal means a lot, especially because the World Cup starting place is secured for the coming season." It will be serious about the Austrian team on Saturday, as the women's team sprint with Laura Pletz and Anna-Sophia Gredler is due. Women also developed good results in training, but in the first competition they placed in a respectable fourth place-only 18 seconds separate them from a medal, such as skiustria.at

On Sunday, the men's team sprint will follow the last competition of this year's Junior World Cup, in which the domestic athletes can once again demonstrate their skills and team spirit. The cheers for the gold medal and the promise of an exciting weekend of competition are imminent - a real highlight of the junior season!