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At the Cross Country World Cup in Nove Mesto, the driver from Graubünden only appears halfway through the race and finishes fourth.
At the start of the race there wasn’t much to see from Nino Schurter. The Graubünden driver was out of the top 20, while Mathias Flückiger, Thomas Litscher and Filippo Colombo focused on other Swiss.
The longer the race lasted at the Czech Nove Mesto, the more Schurter advanced. In the last of the 7 rounds, the Dominator was able to unleash his strength again. Behind a superior group of three, it was enough to finish fourth.
Schurter, who beat Henrique Avancini in the photo-final, missed the podium by 44 seconds. Bündner currently has 32 World Cup victories. With his 33rd he would catch up with the French record holder Julien Absalon.
Mathias Flückiger gives up after a good start
The second best Swiss behind Schurter was Litscher, who finished tenth. Lukas Flückiger was twelfth, Filippo Colombo was fourteenth in his first cross-country race among the elite and the young Ticino was fourth in the short-track test on Tuesday as the best Swiss.
I got off the bike exhausted
Mathias Flückiger.
SRF
Mathias Flückiger did not finish. The Bernese man, who was third at Nove Mesto last year, is off to a good start and is now leading the race. However, from lap four, Flückiger fell further and further back before getting off the bike on lap five and abandoning the race.
Elite rookie Simon Andreassen of Denmark secured victory in the first of two cross country races in the Czech Republic. Frenchman Maxime Marotte came in second, third place went to Milan Vader from the Netherlands.
