The Swiss women's biathlon relay team put on a great performance at the World Cup in Ruhpolding. Elisa Gasparin, Lena Häcki-Gross, Aita Gasparin and Amy Baserga finished in a strong 4th place.
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This was despite the fact that both Elisa Gasparin and Häcki-Gross had a fall at the start. After a flawless standing stage from Baserga, the Swiss skiers were hoping for their first relay podium in five years, but two days after her World Cup podium premiere in the individual, the skier from Schwyz was unable to keep up with Julia Simon's high pace on the final lap. In the end, the Frenchwoman crossed the finish line in third place, ten seconds ahead. Host nation Germany secured victory ahead of Norway.
Fähndrich best Swiss woman in the cross-country sprint
Cross-country skiing. - Nadine Fähndrich was the best Swiss woman in the classic cross-country sprint in Les Rousses, France. The 29-year-old from Lucerne made it through to the semi-finals, where she finished fourth in her heat, 29 hundredths of a second short of a place in the final. Alina Meier and Anja Weber failed to make it through to the quarter-finals, while in the absence of the top duo Janik Riebli and Valerio Grond, no Swiss made it through to the last 32 in the men's event. The winners were Norway's Kristine Stavaas Skistad ahead of Sweden's Maja Dahlqvist and Jonna Sundling, and Sweden's Edvin Anger ahead of Norway's Ansgar Evensen and Erik Valnes.
Swiss bobsleighs too slow at the start
Bobsleigh - In his third two-man bobsleigh race since his intervertebral disc operation, Swiss bobsleigh pilot Michael Vogt was not quite able to build on his performances of recent weeks. After finishing 7th and 5th, Vogt came tenth at the World Cup in Innsbruck with Amadou Ndiaye as push athlete. Timo Rohner/Mathieu Hersperger and Cédric Follador/Luca Rolli finished 15th and 17th respectively. The Swiss' mediocre start times on a track which, according to Vogt, is one of the "most boring" in the World Cup due to its low level of difficulty, could not be made up for in the ice channel. The superior Germans took all the podium places for the fourth time in the fifth race of the season. The victory went to Johannes Lochner, who set a course record in both runs.
Alpine snowboarders disappoint
Snowboard. - The Swiss alpine snowboarders did not get up to speed at all in the first of two parallel giant slaloms in Bansko. For Julie Zogg, Ladina Caviezel and Gian Casanova, the round of 16 was the end of the line. Dario Caviezel and Flurina Bätschi, both of whom have already finished on the podium this World Cup winter, were eliminated in qualifying. Austria's Andreas Prommegger and Germany's Ramona Hofmeister were the winners in south-west Bulgaria.
