Extraordinary display of world champion four-man bob in the first international race of thrust, which took place last weekend in Oberhof.
Maximillian Arndt with his companions Marco Hübenbecker, Alexander Rödiger and Martin Putze has dominated the proof of the four-man bob. The twenty six year old native of Oberhof, on his home track, he did score in the first run a great time taking a single penny from the record of the system held by Andre Lange. In the second race the rider of the team BSR Oberhof failed to repeat, but still gained further ground against rivals. Arndt has a gap of less than 15 cents Roediger and Martin Benjamin Schmid paired both in second place. Manuel Machata, another world star at the start of the event, failed to get on the podium coming in fourth place. The winner of the event commented on his performance: "We should not regret for having narrowly missed the track record.'m Very happy to have won in front of this audience that crowded every corner of this wonderful new arena." The performance of the sample of Thuringia also brought great satisfaction within the German technical staff, the head coach Christoph Langen to the site kufensport-thueringen.de said: "Max ran today on another planet." In the two-man bobsleigh, missing through injury two heavyweights as the young world champion Francesco Friedrich and veteran Thomas Florschuetz, the victory went to the crew consists of Nico and Christian Walther Schmacht. The pilot of Altenberg preceded by 3 cents Maximilian Arndt and Manuel Machata 17. The event was also attended by the French bobsledder Loic Costberg that in the four-man bob he finished in sixth place in the two-man bobsleigh mind was ranked in seventh place. Big surprise in the women prevailed where the Dutch Esme Kamphuis. The pilot "orange", that last season, has impressed for consistent results at the top of the rankings, she managed to get behind him the most favored Anja Schneiderheinze, one that has few rivals boost level. The third step of the podium detached from the winner of 9 cents, rose the junior world champion Miriam Wagner. Rather back the legendary Kiriasis, who accused a gap of almost three tenths off the leader and finished the race in seventh place. It did not take off Cathleen Martini. In the skeleton, absent the protagonists on the world circuit Germans who will be engaged in early October in some tests, has given way to so-called actors. In the field of feminine Sophia Griebel had no rivals. The ventitrenne of Oberhof, which aims to qualify for the Olympic Games in Sochi, inflicted a gap greater than three-tenths the Maxi Just before the stop. The podium was completed by the Dutch Joska Le Conte. Among men, the victory went to Axel Jungk that preceded the junior world champion 2010 Alex Gassner. Who has surprised everyone however, was the sixteen year old Fabian Küchler who got an excellent fourth place.
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