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Franziska Preuß Receives Bavarian Sports Award as Hand Surgery Puts Munich Rollerski Start in Doubt

She says she will not risk the recovering hand, focusing on being ready for the World Cup restart in November.

Overview

  • The 31-year-old was honored Saturday with the 2025 Bayerischer Sportpreis after a breakthrough season featuring her first pursuit world title and the overall World Cup.
  • Following a fall at the German Championships, additional damage was found in her hand, leading to late-September surgery and ongoing rehabilitation.
  • Her participation in the IBU’s first official rollerski race, the Loop One event in Munich on 19 October, remains uncertain.
  • Preuß stressed longer-term priorities, naming the World Cup return and the Milan–Cortina Olympics as the goals guiding any decision on early-season appearances.
  • At the ceremony, Preuß and laudator Magdalena Neuner paid tribute to Laura Dahlmeier, who died in July after rockfall while mountaineering on Laila Peak.