Wenger-Reymond, Dayer and Nygaard Loeken win in Oberjoch
Feb 15, 2019·Telemark
The FIS Telemark World Cup tour made its way to the German Alps to Oberjoch. Athletes would be competing for gold medals in the sprint a parallel sprint disciplines.
First on Saturday it was the sprint that would be contested. It would be win number five of the season for Swiss legend Amelie Wenger-Reymond, as she beat home favourite Johanna Holzmann by just over a second for the first gold of the weekend. Young Swiss skier Martina Wyss made her return to World Cup action and she put in a very good performance finishing fourth. Just missing out the bronze medal taken by Britain’s Jasmin Taylor by .03 seconds.
Oberjoch also saw the return to World Cup action for German athlete Jonas Schmid. Schmid was last to ski the first run with bib number 38, but it was like the German had never been away he put down a flawless first run to put him in the lead going into the second run. But Schmid was unable to keep his lead, as the current World Cup sprint leader Bastien Dayer of Switzerland put down a storming second run which Schmid was unable to beat giving Dayer the gold, but Schmid still finished with a silver medal. Fellow German teammate Benedikt Holzmann finished in the bronze medal position getting his first World Cup podium in seven years.
For the second time this season the excitement of the parallel sprint was on viewing in Oberjoch. In the women’s race current overall World Cup leader Wenger-Reymond took the gold again but only just, as a determined Holzmann eager to replicate last year's win threw herself across the line, but it wouldn’t be enough for the German as Holzmann missed out by 0.016 seconds. Taylor managed to come back from a nasty crash in the semi-finals to win bronze in the small final against French skier Argeline Tan Bouquet.
In the men’s parallel sprint, it was the current overall World Cup leader Trym Nygaard Loeken of Norway taking the gold. Loeken managed to put by his standards a disappointing seventh place in sprint the day before behind him to beat Frenchman Philippe Lau for the gold. Like in the women’s the bronze medal went to the athlete who had an incident in the semi-final, this was Stefan Matter of Switzerland. In the semi-final on the 360 Matter skied into the back on Lau ripping part of the French skier’s catsuit. Matter was able to put that mistake out of his head and beat fellow Swiss teammate Nicholas Michel for bronze.
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