Speed skater Michelle Uhrig ended her World Cup season with an exclamation mark. The 28-year-old from Berlin reached the podium in the mass start in Quebec, Canada. The men’s team, however, missed the podium in the overall ranking.
Uhrig surprisingly won bronze in the mass start at the end of the Speed Skating World Cup. In the final sprint of the 16-lap race in Quebec-Ville/Canada, Uhrig was only beaten by Sandrine Tas (Belgium) and Ramona Härdi (Switzerland).
Uhrig overwhelmed: “Wait what?”
“Wait what? My first medal on an individual route at the World Cup,” Uhrig commented on her success on Instagram: “I’m so incredibly happy. What a great race. Do you know when the last medal on an individual route for women was?”
For the 28-year-old federal police officer it was the first World Cup medal in the mass start. Canadian Valerie Maltais took overall victory in the World Cup ahead of compatriot Ivanie Blondin and Olympic champion Irene Schouten (Netherlands). In the final ranking, the German starters Uhrig and Josefine Heimerl (Inzell) took ninth and 19th place.
German men fourth overall
In the men’s team sprint, the German trio of Hendrik Dombek (Munich), Moritz Klein and Stefan Emele (both Erfurt) came in sixth. The day’s victory went to Poland, while the USA won the overall World Cup. The German team came fourth.