OL-WM: Hadorn gets lost – medal gone

Published: 06/26/2022 at 21:02

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Start runner Simona Aebersold opened properly. In second place, she handed over to Joey Hadorn, 17 seconds behind. The Bernese even caught up to the top before a fatal mistake threw him back. He ran with a group into an alley that ended in a restricted area, had to turn around and was passed on to 13th intermediate place, more than 1:30 minutes behind! «At that moment I had given up reading the map and realized far too late that we had taken the wrong route. The rest of the race, with the knowledge that it was more or less over, was brutal,” said Hadorn.

Matthias Kyburz then started the race to catch up, leading the Swiss team back to intermediate place 8, just under 30 seconds behind on the medal ranks. As a result, anchor runner Elena Roos came closer to the teams in the race for the bronze medal and in the end fought a close duel with France, Denmark and Norway. In the end, however, it wasn’t enough to catch up with Norwegian Andrine Benjaminsen. The budgeted podium was seven seconds short. The mortgage that Hadorn had negotiated with Switzerland turned out to be too big.