Olympic champion Laura Nolte won the two-man bobsleigh race after the monobob. The 26-year-old from Winterberg won in Altenberg with her Potsdam pusher Deborah Levi, 0.65 seconds ahead of world champion Lisa Buckwitz (BRC Thuringia) and Neele Schuten (TV Gladbeck). Kim Kalicki from Wiesbaden completed the German triple success with Lauryn Siebert from Winterberg.
“A great start to the season,” said Nolte, who won gold in the two-man bobsleigh with Levi at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing. In the first of two runs she improved her own track record by nine hundredths of a second to 55.99 seconds.
Three-time Olympic champion Kaillie Humphries came fifth in her World Cup comeback after the birth of her son Aulden six months ago. The 39-year-old pilot won three of her five world championship titles in Altenberg and will also be the Germans’ biggest competitor at the 2026 Olympics in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo. “A lot will happen in the three months, she will be fit at the start of the World Championships in Lake Placid,” said Nolte.