Innsbruck-Igls (pps) Germany’s Silke Kraushaar is just ahead of winning the Overall Viessmann World Cup. Celebrating her 4th victory of the Olympic season at Innsbruck-Igls she has an advantage of 100 points. One point at the Viessmann World Cup final at Oberhof at the End of January will be enough for her in order to win the Overall World Cup for the 4th time.

At Igls she won in a total time of one minute 20,395 seconds. Second place went to Natalia Yakuschenko (0,188 seconds back) from Ukraine and her team-mate Sylke Otto (0,263 back). Third place in the overall standings behind Kraushaar (625 points) and Otto (525) goes to Tatjana Hüfner (454) from Germany followed by Italy’s Anastasia Oberstolz-Antonova (397).

Quotes:

Silke Kraushaar (GER / Olympic Champion 1998 and World Champion 2004)
„Now I have to bring down two solid runs at Oberhof. But I’m quit sure that I will realize it. It’s a nice thing to win the Overall World Cup in the Olympic season.”

Natalia Yakuschenko (Overall Winner of Suzuki Challenge Cup 2004/2005)
„I’m very happy with this second place. At the Olympics I hope to win a medal.

Sylke Otto (Olympic 2002 and four-time World Champion)
„I kissed the wood on top of curves 13 and 14. It is amazing that I reached the 3rd place after such a big mistake.”

Photo: Silke Kraushaar