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DSV star wins fourth World Cup medal
Althaus’ ski jumping party bus knows no end
03/01/2023, 7:21 p.m
Awesome, the medal party continues happily: ski jumper Katharina Althaus flies to fourth medal at the World Championships in Planica. After three gold medals, the woman from Oberstdorf now takes bronze on the large hill. Selina Freitag is 19th, Pauline Hessler shows a strong World Cup debut.
Ski jumper Katharina Althaus won bronze in the individual large hill at the World Championships in Planica. The player from Oberstdorf was only beaten by the new world champion Alexandria Loutitt from Canada and defending champion Maren Lundby (Norway). For Althaus it was her fourth medal in her fourth competition of the title fights in Slovenia. Four titles for a ski jumper at a World Championships would have been a novelty.
“Congratulations to Katha, unbelievable. Showing such jumps in these conditions today and finishing third – great respect,” said national coach Maximilian Mechler on ARD: “That was incredibly strong of her.” The competition was characterized in the first run by constant changes in inrun length.
Team World Champion Selina Freitag, fourth from little Bakken, had to settle for 19th place on Wednesday. Pauline Hessler made a decent World Championship debut and finished 26th.
Althaus had won gold in individual, mixed and team competitions on the normal hill and had risen to become the sole record world champion with her World Championship titles number five, six and seven – in the men’s category only Thomas Morgenstern from Austria was more successful with eight titles. However, the feat of four gold medals for Germany at a World Cup is reserved for combined athlete Johannes Rydzek, who won in Lahti in 2017.
For the women, the World Championships are over, but for the men around Andreas Wellinger and Karl Geiger there are still two chances of a medal in individual on Friday and team on Saturday.