World Champion Tatjana Hüfner forced to cancel Königssee

Oberhof (RWH) Due to an injury, record winning World Champion Tatjana Hüfner is forced to cancel the Viessmann World Cup in the artificial ice track of Königssee, Germany, next weekend. The 2010 Olympic Champion suffers of an inflammation of nerves at the right leg, as the local luge federation of Thuringia announced. Tatjana Hüfner confirmed the cancellation. “I’m well aided”, she wrote on Facebook.

So far Tatjana Hüfner has won the Viessmann Luge World Cup at Calgary, Canada. In the overall raking she is on second place. At the Winter Games in PyeongChang next February she planned to compete at the Olympics for the fourth time.