Winter sports - Snowboard crossers miss out on podium places at the start of the season
The German snowboard crossers have started the new World Cup season without the podium places they had hoped for. Jana Fischer finished fourth in Les Deux Alpes, France, on Sunday, narrowly missing out on the podium. While the 24-year-old impressed by making it into the final, team-mate and co-favorite Martin Nörl was unable to get past tenth place. The 30-year-old, who recently won the overall World Cup twice in a row, was eliminated in the quarter-finals. "It wasn't completely bad, but I'm not mega-happy either," said Nörl.
The other German starters failed to make it through to the knockout round in qualifying. Fischer and Nörl had finished seventh in the team event on Saturday.
There were also no top places for the German freestyle snowboarders at the Big Air World Cup in Beijing at the weekend. The halfpipe athletes were also unlucky: André Höflich and Christoph Lechner were stranded at Munich airport due to the snow chaos in Bavaria and were unable to travel to the World Cup in Secret Garden, China. They will miss the competition.
Snowboard World Cup results
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Source: www.stern.de
