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.