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A fantastic & nbsp; Francesco Friedrich & nbsp; does mark the & nbsp; best run time & nbsp; in the fourth and final descent and won his & nbsp; second consecutive world title in the bob 2 & nbsp; after the success of two years ago on the track Swiss & nbsp; Sankt Moritz. & nbsp;
Sunday 1 March 2015 6 minutes reading time
In the end, the advantage that separates the German from the first two pursuers & egrave; of well & nbsp; 1 second to 6 cents, a huge advantage that has earned twenty-four, scoring the & nbsp; best time in all four runs played, thanks to which you & egrave; cos & Igrave; could redeem the failure to win the World Cup of specialty & agrave ;.
The native of Pirna in this World Championships competed along with brakeman & nbsp; Thorsten Margis, which this season had already & agrave; won both a & nbsp; Lake Placid & nbsp; is a & nbsp; Igls. The other two podiums seasonal maximum in the world circuit of the bob in this specialty & agrave; he had obtained thanks to the brakeman & nbsp; Grothkopp Martin, with whom he had come second to & nbsp; & nbsp Calgary, and had won a & nbsp; La Plagne.
The 'Silver & nbsp; & egrave; round tied all''equipaggio Latvian formed by & nbsp; Oskars MelbÄrdis & nbsp; and & nbsp; Daumants DreiÅ¡kens & nbsp; and the German one composed & nbsp; Johannes Lochner & nbsp; and & nbsp; Joshua Bluhm. The medal obtained by Melbardis has a great historical value, since & egrave; & nbsp; the first medal won by Latvia at the World Championships bob. The twenty-four Lochner, instead, cos & Igrave; centered & nbsp; the best result of his career.
Fourth place & nbsp; for the Swiss & nbsp; Beat Hefti, left behind & nbsp; 16 cents to the two medals' silver. The 'Swiss, who this season's World Cup had obtained & nbsp; six podiums & nbsp; in the bob 2, including & nbsp; the & nbsp; victories & nbsp; & nbsp; Altenberg & nbsp; and & nbsp; Schonau am Koenigssee & egrave; remained outside the top three positions paying dearly for the bad first down at the end of which was only eleventh in the standings, and to no avail the other three good run in which he played twice clocked the fourth fastest time in the heats and once the second.
Excellent result for Korean Won Yunjong, which together with brakeman & nbsp; & nbsp Youngwoo Seo; got a & nbsp; & nbsp fifth place; that he is the & nbsp; best career result in the maximum circuit World bob.
Good result also for Latvian & nbsp; Ugis Zalims, even third after the second heat and & nbsp; the sixth after the race, who has played most of this season in & nbsp; & nbsp European Cup, where & egrave; arrived & nbsp; after & nbsp; & nbsp all''italiano; Simone Bertazzo & nbsp; in the ranking of specialty & agrave ;.
Who & nbsp; & nbsp particularly disappointed; in this race are & nbsp; the crews were North Americans. & Nbsp; Steven Holcomb, who last season in this specialty & agrave; has & nbsp; won the World Cup & nbsp; and also won the & nbsp; medal 'silver & nbsp; to & nbsp; Olympic Games, & egrave; arrived only & nbsp; seventeenth. To underline how the US bobsledder in the days before the race had accused the Germans of excesses because, according to him, have tried the track Winterberg pi & ugrave; times compared to other athletes. Probably, the 'expert bobbista got their hands because & eacute; knew of & nbsp; not be the game & nbsp; in this race considered the & nbsp; poor results & nbsp; obtained in this season, and the fact that in addition to the four German crews will be placed in front of him also athletes Latvian, Swiss, Korean, Russian, British and Canadian in addition to teammate Nick Cunningham after the race that preceded him five places and 73 cents, & nbsp; seems to support this theory.
Also worthy of note, as the best of Canadians has been & nbsp; Nick Poloniato, who with her & nbsp; sixteenth place & nbsp; preceded & nbsp; Chris Spring, & nbsp; the eighteenth, and & nbsp; Justin Kripps, even & nbsp; the twenty-first. & Nbsp;
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