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Altenberg (dpa) - You can rely on the youngest in the German team.
The 22-year-old Kim Kalicki and the only one year older Laura Nolte ensured a successful start to the two-man bobsleigh world championships in Altenberg with silver and bronze.
After a total of four runs, Kalicki and Ann-Christin Strack were only 0.35 seconds behind the victorious Kaillie Humphries from the USA on Saturday.
«I am completely satisfied, we showed what we can do.
Kaillie is simply too strong here, ”said Kalicki, who repeated her surprise coup from last year with second place behind the two-time Olympic champion Humphries.
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Junior world champion Nolte won her first women's medal with Deborah Levi.
Nolte, who fell in the second run of the previous year at the World Championships, set the fastest starting times in all four runs, but made too many mistakes in the 17 corners of the ice channel despite the lead.
“When you think of last year, that kept me busy for a long time.
So I'm glad it worked, ”said Nolte with tears in his eyes.
Stephanie Schneider indicated her class after the two failed runs the day before and raced from eighth to fourth with Leonie Fiebig.
Pyeongchang Olympic champion Mariama Jamanka missed another medal in sixth place with Vanessa Mark.
Undisputed, Francesco Friedrich drove out a comfortable lead in the small sled.
This means that the double Olympic champion is on a record World Cup course at halftime.
Because with his tenth title he would be the sole world record winner after the Italian Eugenio Monti had nine gold medals.
With pusher Alexander Schüller, Friedrich has 0.88 seconds ahead of second-placed Johannes Lochner, who started with Eric Franke, before the final two runs this Sunday.
“In this weather we're happy about the upholstery.
The track under the snow is hard and offers good support, ”said Friedrich.
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Lochner, on the other hand, quarreled with his performance: "Even a blind man saw that the journeys were under all hell."
World Cup debutant Hans-Peter Hannighofer with Christian Röder is also within reach of a medal.
He is only ten hundredths of a second behind the third-placed Swiss Michael Vogt.
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