Stadlober shines with a strong 8th place on a shortened tour de ski!

Stadlober shines with a strong 8th place on a shortened tour de ski!

Toblach, Italien - In the spectacular opening round of this year's Tour de Ski in Toblach, Teresa Stadlober has achieved an impressive result. The 31-year-old Salzburg woman took eighth place in the 15 km mass start-up race in a classic style and was a real eye-catcher. Her time of 42: 47.3 minutes was only 23.7 seconds slower than the winner Jessica Diggins from the USA, who won the race with 42: 23.6 minutes. It was really exciting in the final phase when Stadlober was able to make up for more and more places and in the end in the overall ranking in tenth place, 1:40 minutes behind Diggins, like the Laola1 reported .

The competition was hard: In addition to Stadlober, Finn Kerrtu Niskanen, who only finished 0.5 seconds behind Diggins, fought, as well as the Norwegian Astrid Oeyre Slind, who was 0.7 seconds behind. Stadlober commented on her course of the race and explained that she went into the race from a high start number, which led to hectic initial phases. "I gave everything and I am absolutely satisfied with eighth place," said Stadlober, who is looking forward to the 20 km individual race on New Year's Eve after this positive result. The second Austrian Katharina Brudermann had to be satisfied with the 43rd place (+3: 28.5), as also reported by the Krone .

After a deserved day of rest, the athletes have to recover and be ready for the next challenge that is imminent on their way to the overall victory. After the disappointing sprint prologue, Stadlober is enthusiastic about her performance the day before and confidently goes into the next competition. The audience is excited to see whether the Salzburg native can keep her shape and will continue to rise in the overall ranking.