Track Cycling World Championships 2022: Women's foursome's winning streak ends
DPA
· 12.10.2022
German track cycling quartet in fifth place
The two Tokyo Olympic champions Mieke Kröger and Franziska Brauße, together with Lena Charlotte Reissner and Lea Lin Teutenberg, were clocked in a time of 4:16.898 minutes in qualifying, putting them in fifth place. This means that the quartet could finish third on the 2024 Olympic track on Thursday.
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The German women's four had won almost everything in the past two years. After winning gold in Tokyo, the foursome, which was named Team of the Year at the Athletes' Gala, also triumphed at the 2021 World Championships and the 2021 and 2022 European Championships. However, multiple world champion Lisa Brennauer ended her career after the 2022 European Championships in Munich. In addition, Lisa Klein will not be competing at the World Championships due to health problems. And replacement Laura Süßemilch is not yet fully recovered after her crash injury at the Tour de France.
Korff on the current situation
"We're not starting from scratch. One has stopped, two others have fallen ill. We're trying to introduce the younger girls. The situation has now arisen where we have to step in. We're trying to keep up as much as possible," said national coach André Korff.
The German men's four, which had also undergone a personnel change, fared even worse in qualifying. Theo Reinhardt, Tobias Buck-Gramcko, Nicolas Heinrich and Leon Rohde finished seventh in 3:52.332 minutes.
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