Biathlon, Anterselva: Former World Champion Benedikt Doll has won a World Cup race for the first time this season. In the mass start in Antholz on Saturday, the 31-year-old clearly beat twelve-time world champion Johannes Thingnes Bö. After just one shooting error, Doll was 31.3 seconds ahead of the Norwegian, who had three penalties, in the last men’s individual race before the Olympics. For Doll it was the third World Cup victory overall. Third was Norway’s Sturla Holm Laegreid (3 penalties). Last week Doll had already finished second in the sprint at the home World Cup in Ruhpolding.
“I’m incredibly happy,” said Doll after his first win in over two years on ARD. “It’s really nice that it worked out with the win and not just with a podium finish,” said the ski hunter, who last won the Le Grand-Bornand sprint on December 19, 2019. Johannes Kühn came in 19th on his comeback after his compulsory Corona break. After six penalties, the 30-year-old was 3:21.4 minutes behind his teammate at the top of the podium. Roman Rees, who also had six penalties, finished the 15-kilometer race in 21st place, 3:33 minutes behind.
Soccer, 2nd league: SV Darmstadt 98 has replaced FC St. Pauli as table leader in the 2nd Bundesliga. The team coached by Torsten Lieberknecht won 2-0 (1-0) at Last FC Ingolstadt 04 on Saturday. The Darmstadt team have only lost one match in the last 13 games. The goals for the fifth away win in a row came from Tim Skarke (15′) and Aaron Seydel (82′). With 39 points, the Hessians are two points ahead of FC St. Pauli after the 20th matchday. Hamburg have been waiting for a win for four games and lost the city duel against HSV (34) 1-2 (1-0) on Friday evening.
SC Paderborn and Werder Bremen played a wild game on Saturday. The Hanseatic League still won 4:3 (1:2) despite being 1:3 behind. The Bremen team won their fifth game under their coach Ole Werner and improved with 35 points to third place in the promotion relegation zone. Florent Muslija (15’/penalty kick, 38′) and Felix Platte (57′) scored twice for the East Westphalians from long range to temporarily lead 3-1. But the guests held back with goals from Marvin Ducksch (35′), Romano Schmid (59′), Niclas Füllkrug (66′) and Ömer Toprak (86′). A goal was denied by both sides in the second half.
The promotion ambitions of 1. FC Heidenheim (34) were dampened by the 0-0 draw at Hansa Rostock. With a win, Heidenheim could have successfully defended their third place. The Rostockers were the more active team overall, the guests hardly took part in the offensive. In the evening, FC Schalke 04 took on the second-to-bottom Erzgebirge Aue.
Football, 3rd division: 1. FC Kaiserslautern secured second place in the table on the 22nd matchday of the 3rd football league. The Red Devils won 2-0 (1-0) against newly promoted Viktoria Berlin. Julian Niehues (42nd) and Philipp Hercher (63rd) scored the goals for the Palatinate. Eintracht Braunschweig achieved a 1-0 (0-0) victory against Halleschen FC. Luc Ihorst (65th) scored for the German champions of 1967. Waldhof Mannheim came to a 2:1 (1:0) at the table penultimate Würzburger Kickers. Pascal Sohm (40th) and Fridolin Wagner (90th) scored the goals for the Kurpfälzer, Robert Hermann (69th) was successful for the Mainfranken to the interim 1:1. Viktoria Köln won 5:2 (0:1) against SC Verl. SV Wehen Wiesbaden and VfL Osnabrück parted without a goal.
Shortly before the planned kick-off, the city duel between Türkgücü Munich and 1860 Munich was canceled. This was announced by the German Football Association (DFB) on Saturday, citing as justification that the city of Munich’s health department had “ordered a quarantine for large parts of the team” because of some corona cases in 1860. An alternative date is not fixed yet. According to the DFB, the game against Kaiserslautern scheduled for Tuesday (7:00 p.m.) is “also at high risk”.
