Noémie Wiedmer also makes it into the top 8 in the second World Cup race in Gudauri, Georgia. The winter sports facts from Sunday.
09.03.2025, 11:52
09.03.2025, 18:06
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Snowboard. - Noémie Wiedmer, gold medal winner at the Youth Olympics and runner-up at the 2024 Junior World Championships, finished in 7th place 24 hours after finishing 4th on Saturday. The 17-year-old snowboard crosser from the canton of Bern was beaten in the semi-final by Great Britain's Charlotte Bankes and France's Julia Pereira de Sousa, who went on to win the final. Bankes celebrated her 25th World Cup victory and extended her lead in the overall standings to 57 points.
Wiedmer is contesting her first season in the World Cup. In her seventh race, she made it into the semi-finals of the top eight for the fifth time. The other Swiss women, including Sina Siegenthaler, who was ranked 9th, were eliminated in the quarter-finals. In the men's event, Valerio Jud did not make it past 22nd place in the race won by Frenchman Julien Tomas, just like the day before,
Men's relay team misses the podium in the last shooting
Biathlon. - The Swiss men's relay team was on course for a podium finish at the World Cup event in Nove Mesto in the Czech Republic. However, final skier Arnaud du Pasquier, who had only made his debut at this level three days earlier in the sprint race, picked up three penalties in the final standing stage, meaning that the quartet, which also included Sebastian Stalder, Joscha Burkhalter and Niklas Hartweg, slipped to ninth place. France secured victory ahead of Norway and thus also won the fifth relay race in the current World Cup. The French had only been beaten this winter at the World Championships in Lenzerheide. The Norwegians took silver.
