The thumb was pointing down, Julia Taubitz wasn’t entirely happy with third place at the Toboggan World Cup in Sigulda. With her teammate Anna Berreiter’s first win of the season, she still secured the overall World Cup victory early. “I didn’t even know. “I never count,” said the sprint world champion: “That’s huge. I’m really happy.”
Because the former world champion Anna Berreiter performed well and the Austrian Madeleine Egle, her closest rival so far, recorded her worst result of the season in 14th place, it was enough for the five-time world champion Taubitz to win again in the overall ranking. The 27-year-old has now won the overall World Cup four times, three times in a row in the last three winters.
The Saxon woman had not yet realized the positive impact of her result even after the end of the race and was therefore particularly annoyed by her mistakes: “It was very mixed, rough with problems in several corners,” said the four-time season winner, still completely focused.
The 24-year-old Anna Berreiter, on the other hand, came through thanks to a race to catch up ahead of the local hero Elina Vitola, and in the second round she moved from seventh place to the top.
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“My body has been playing a lot of tricks on me lately. I wasn’t really fit today either, I’ve been sick for the week. I put all my resources together,” said Berreiter, who won the single-seater world title in Oberhof a year ago. Most recently, at the World Championships in Altenberg, the Bavarian remained without a medal.