Close to the absolute best in the world: Beda Klee in snowy Lapland
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Good performance: sister duo Nadja (11th, left) and Marina Kälin (28th) finish in the top 30 in Ruka
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In only their second World Cup race in the two-man bobsleigh, Inola Blatty and sprint rocket Salomé Kora, who has been converted into a push athlete, finish in the top 8
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Not in bad shape at the start of the season: Amy Baserga
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Close to the absolute best in the world: Beda Klee in snowy Lapland
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Good performance: sister duo Nadja (11th, left) and Marina Kälin (28th) finish in the top 30 in Ruka
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In only their second World Cup race in the two-man bobsleigh, Inola Blatty and sprint rocket Salomé Kora, who has been converted into a push athlete, finish in the top 8
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Not in bad shape at the start of the season: Amy Baserga
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The Swiss cross-country skiers put in a strong performance at the World Cup in Finland, and the women's bobsleigh team in Innsbruck also put in a respectable performance. These are the winter sports facts of Sunday.
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Cross-country skiing. - The Swiss distance skiers show a strong reaction to the weak start to the season on Friday at the World Cup in Ruka. Beda Klee achieves the required Olympic standard (top 15) with 14th place in the 20 km skating race with mass start. This is a particular relief for the man from Toggenburg after an epidemic season. In sixteenth place, Jason Rüesch from Graubünden misses the qualification limit by a tenth of a second - not least against the once again disappointing overrunner Johannes Klaebo, who clearly misses out on his 100th World Cup victory. With Harald Amundsen and Einar Hedegart, Norway nevertheless celebrates a double victory in Lapland.
Nadja Kälin just outside the top 10
Cross-country skiing. - Nadja Kälin comes even closer to the top 10 in the women's race. In eleventh place, the 24-year-old from the Engadine missed her best World Cup result from last season by just three places. Over the 20 km she loses a good one and a half minutes to the Swedish super sprinter Jonna Sundling, who wins through in the leading group against the American Jessie Diggins. The second best Swiss athlete is Marina Kälin, Nadja's sister who is two years younger, in 28th place.
Olympic qualification for Vogt
Bobsleigh - Michael Vogt and his team secure the first top 6 place for Swiss bobsleigh athletes this season at the World Cup in Innsbruck. With his 6th place, the man from Schwyz also secures the definitive Olympic qualification. Cédric Follador loses too much time at the start, but is convincing on the track and finishes in 9th place. The second stage was also disappointing for Timo Rohner, who finished eighteenth, behind Martin Kranz from Liechtenstein (14th). Francesco Friedrich and Johannes Lochner celebrate the expected German double victory.
Blatty and Hasler in the top 10
Bobsleigh - After the seventh World Cup race of the season, the Swiss bobsleigh athletes are still waiting for their first top 6 finish. However, debutants Inola Blatty/Salomé Kora can be one hundred percent satisfied with their 8th place in the two-man event in Innsbruck. They are the best Swiss sled, one position (and 24 hundredths) ahead of Melanie Hasler/Muswama Kambundji. With the victory of the German dominator Laura Nolte, the third Swiss team Debora Annen/Mara Morell finished in 13th place.
Baserga/Stalder in 6th place
Biathlon. - The Swiss duo Amy Baserga/Sebastian Stalder finishes in a good 6th place at the World Cup in Östersund. The pair from Schwyz and the Zurich Oberlander avoid a penalty round, but need nine reloads, so that the podium is out of reach. Aita Gasparin and Niklas Hartweg won the last single-mixed competition at the end of last season. The man from Schwyz is missing this time due to illness, the woman from Graubünden is competing in the mixed relay. The Swedes Sebastian Samuelsson/Ella Halvarsson take the win.
Mixed relay not in the top 10
Biathlon. - The Swiss quartet with James Pacal, Joscha Burkhalter, Aita Gasparin and Lena Häcki-Gross cannot convince in the mixed relay in Östersund and finishes in 15th place. The Swiss team finished a good four minutes behind the winners from France, who started with Emilien Jacquelin, Eric Perrot, Justine Braisaz-Bouchet and Lou Jeanmonnot.
