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42 athletes divided into 6 teams made a great spectacle edition 2014 Peak to Creek, the multisport relay race that has held on 2 and 3 May in Oetztal, Tyrol and has engaged the participants with a distance of 90 km from the summit of the glacier towards the river Rettenbach Ötztal.
Monday 5 May 2014 5 minutes reading time
Ski mountaineering, skiing, mountain biking, mountain running, mountaineering, road cycling and kayaking are the subjects in which you have grappled athletes and that saw him win the Team Allstars 1 in 5:05:50, followed in second place team Allstars 2, with the ski mountaineer Thomas Martini (ITA), just in front of the local team of the Ötztal. Dominik Paris Ivo Zuliani and instead make sure the fourth with the team Allstars 3.
"I'm just not very lucky when it comes to choosing the right equipment for uvex Peak to Creek - explains the blue of the World Cup Alpine Skiing, Dominik Paris -. Last year, the course included a part in off the track as well and today I decided to use the freestyle skiing. Due to the bad weather, and 'opted for the hard snow. And my skis were certainly not the most ideal. "
For boys Allstars 3 things have started to turn a mountain bike, with the Slovak Tadej Valjavec that, after a head-to-head with the German Wolfgnag Eysholdt, is was the first to hand over the baton to teammate, the Italian athlete Thomas Niederegger mountain running, followed closely by Helmut Schiessl (GER). The English Tarquin Cooper, Team uvex, and the Austrian Markus Kroll, eager to catch up on his team (ed Allstars 1) for failure to compete in the mountain bike due to an injury, started at the same time immediately after Johannes Schà ¶ pf the local team Ötzal. It ' Kroll was ultimately prevail.
In climbing the German Martin Schidlowski Allstars Team 2 took advantage of Stew Watson (GBR) handing over the baton to Jan Ullrich thirty seconds later that the British gave the go-to team-mate, the Italian Antonio Corradini. Meanwhile on the wall and you Engleswan ' played the battle for third and fourth place, with Hansjörg Auer (AUT) Team Allstars 1 in front of the Austrian Lukas Ennemoser. Hansjörg so he passed the baton to his companion Thomas Rohregger, the best performance of this year's uvex Peak to Creek. With fifteen minutes late, has in fact been able to overcome the leader, the cyclist Jan Ullrich, and so give ' leeway important to their team to be able to step onto the most ' top of the podium.
It ' so that was the first athlete to try their hand at kayaking is Sven was Lämmler, precisely Allstars 1. lot of high water and extreme conditions for kayakers gave a fascinating spectacle. In the final stage, the whole team has tackled the rapids of Ötzaler Ache in a final session of rafting.
For the first time, this year Uvex Peak to Creek was also attended by a team of only women, among them the Italian Alba De Silvestro, who gave a hard time to men, with a total time of 6:26 : 26.
"It ' was overall a good race - Alba said De Silvestro, world champion junior ski mountaineering - with a journey time of forty minutes to my discipline: practically perfect. Too bad for visibility reduced and the bad weather, but they made this challenge even more hard. "
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