With a cold, Paul Verbnjak managed to finish positively at the European Ski Mountaineering Championships in Spain. After bronze in the sprint, there was second place in the U23 class in the individual.
On Friday, ski mountaineer Paul Verbnjak skipped the individual visit to the European Championships in Vall de Boi (Sp) with a sore throat and flu symptoms. “Before the race I also asked myself whether that made sense at all.”Silver at the endAfter a difficult first 30 minutes, the 20-year-old was unstoppable in the competition on Saturday. He took silver in the U23 category in 1:28:54 behind Aurelien Gay (Sz), and even finished 14th in the elite. He was never placed so well in the “supreme discipline” in the World Cup in the verticalFor Paul, a successful conclusion to the European Championship after surprisingly finishing fourth in the vertical, his special discipline, in the U23s. “I risked the top positions in the elite. Unfortunately, that didn’t work out.”Bronze in the sprintThere was an unexpected U23 bronze in the sprint on Wednesday. “All in all, it was a positive EM despite the cold,” sums up the man from Klagenfurt, who will continue next Friday in the Austrian sprint championship.
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