Swiss+Austrian Sprint Champs: Wyder and Hertner

Jan Kocbach May 17, 2015 MiniNews 1 Comment

Wyder and Hertner were on top when the last Swiss World Cup selection race – the Swiss + Austrian Sprint Champs – was organized in Austria.

In the women’s class retired Simone Niggli finished in 2nd place – 11 seconds behind Wyder – with Julia Gross and Silje Ekroll Jahren (NOR) in the next places. In the men’s class Daniel Hubmann was closest to Hertner – 8 seconds behind – with Matthias Kyburz another 3 seconds behind.

Ended a nice testrace weekend with another podium today – silver in the Swiss Sprint Champs! Now on the way to… http://t.co/m81mDLF2JJ

— Daniel Hubmann (@dhubmann) May 17, 2015

Defended my swiss champs gold medal in Sprint today. I'm very happy with my race & the whole test weekend! Results: http://t.co/L7BXm8WY53

— JudithWyder (@judithwyder) May 17, 2015

Men: 14 of 31 legs for Hertner

Fabian Hertner won 14 of 31 legs and did nearly no mistakes. On the other hand Daniel Hubmann had the most constant race – losing 5 seconds or less to the leg winner on all legs – that was least of all runners in this race. Looking at the performance index, Hertner had a small edge ahead of Hubmann and Kyburz. It may look like this was not the most tricky sprint – and/or the Swiss runners have a fantastic sprint shape these days.

Fabian Hertner

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Daniel Hubmann

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Women: Wyder and Niggli

Looking at the women’s class, Wyder and Niggli had very similar performance – except for Niggli’s 11 second time loss at control 5 (a one minute leg). Niggli was in the lead before the 5th control – but from there and on it was Wyder in the lead. Judith Wyder won 8 of 25 legs.

Results Women

1.	Judith Wyder	OLG Thun	14:17 (+0:00)
2.	Simone Niggli	OLV Hindelbank	14:28 (+0:11)
3.	Julia Gross	OL Zimmerberg	14:31 (+0:14)
4.	Silje Ekroll Jahren	ol norska	14:37 (+0:20)
5.	Sara Lüscher	OLC Kapreolo	14:54 (+0:37)
6.	Sabine Hauswirth	ol norska	14:55 (+0:38)
7.	Elena Roos	O-92 Piano di Magadino	15:25 (+1:08)
7.	Martina Ruch	OLG Skandia	15:25 (+1:08)
9.	Sarina Jenzer	OLG Huttwil	15:26 (+1:09)
10.	Ines Brodmann	OLG Basel	15:35 (+1:18)

Results Men

1.	Fabian Hertner	OLV Baselland	14:43 (+0:00)
2.	Daniel Hubmann	OL Regio Wil	14:51 (+0:08)
3.	Matthias Kyburz	OLK Fricktal	14:54 (+0:11)
4.	Florian Howald	OLG Herzogenbuchsee	14:57 (+0:14)
5.	Martin Hubmann	OL Regio Wil	15:04 (+0:21)
6.	Christoph Meier	OLV Baselland	15:12 (+0:29)
7.	Gernot Kerschbaumer	HSV Pinkafeld	15:18 (+0:35)
8.	Andreas Rüedlinger	OLK Rafzerfeld	15:21 (+0:38)
9.	Raffael Huber	OLG Säuliamt	15:37 (+0:54)
10.	Tim Robertson	Fossum club	15:38 (+0:55)