Â Christina Hengster and Benjamin Maier are the new champions of the Austrian bob

Yesterday the famous gut Igls have played the Austrian National Championships bob which awarded the licenses for specialty women's bobsled and men's four-man bob.

Sunday 29 December 2013 2 minutes reading time

In the women's race the national title was won by world champion junior Christina Hengster 2011-2012. The twenty-seven of the team Amars BC / Innsbruck (pictured) teamed with brakeman Tuechi Alexandra has signed the best lap times in both heats references in the program, trimming an abysmal gap (more than 3 seconds) to the first of the enemy Birgit Sauberer. The podium was completed by Katrin Beierl. Hengster that has become a pilot since the 2008-2009 season after a few years as brakeman, has thus won his sixth consecutive national laurel. In the men's four-man bob big statement for the young driver Benjamin Maier. The former dicianovenne skelettonista that the Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck won the silver medal in two-man bobsleigh'', dominated the national championship detaching of forty cents Markus Treichl and Samuel Passegger more than 3 seconds. Maier For today's represents its first national title in the specialty of the four-man bob, a year ago instead of the Tyrolean graduated sample in the two-man bobsleigh. Lastly, the'' impressive age gap between the winner and retired at the end of the first run Wolfgang Stampfer, between the two c'' is a difference of twenty-two years!

Alessandro Genuzio

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