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It is closed with a success of Steven Holcomb (pictured)'' the 2013-2014 edition of the World Cup bobsleigh four-staged yesterday afternoon in Koenigssee, Germany.
Monday 27 January 2014 5 minutes reading time
The pilot of Park City beat of just 9 cents an extraordinary Beat Hefti ever so competitive in the four-man bob as on this occasion. The Swiss great specialist of the two-man bobsleigh, was the protagonist of a superlative test that allowed him to embarrass even the Olympic champion Holcomb, the last athlete on track.
'' The U.S. for its part has not been done by taking emotion'', and together with the brakemen Tomasevicz, Langton and Fogt, drove his Night Train 2 to the fourth victory of the season, the first in Europe. Holcomb, despite the higher number of wins this season, however, fails to turn up at the sky the coveted Crystal Ball. The U.S. in fact, because of the dramatic reversal of Winterberg has practically gave the World Cup to the rival Arndt.
Hefti also can giorie for winning his first European title in the four-man bob, and gives Switzerland a dream weekend, as the Swiss Confederation closes this edition of the European Championship with the beauty of 3 gold medals'' and a d'' silver!
The third step of the podium trailing by three tenths from Holcomb, closed the Canadian Lyndon Rush author of a bad final run. The North American,'' in fact marked only the eighth part-time saving the podium for just a penny against Jackson'' s English, getting the best result of the season.
Good performance for the young talent Francesco Friedrich missing'' s appointment with the second podium of the year'' for just two cents, but celebrated nonetheless an important European bronze. The talented German rider with his fifth save a disastrous weekend for Germany, who on his home track was well below expectations. Aside Friedrich, the other two Teutonic race have never been in contention for the top spots, with the specialist Maximilian Arndt who finished in eighth place and with veteran Thomas Florschuetz who finished ninth.
The big surprise of the day comes from the Dutch'' Van Calcker seventh, which has signed the final round even the best reference clock recovering three positions.
Those who continues to lag in the standings is the'' blue Simone Bertazzo, that after the tenth of the first discrete descent could not be repeated in the final run finishing in thirteenth place. The Venetian pilot closes a season decidedly negative, the culmination of which was reached in the first meeting of the year'' in Calgary, where he took the'' blue'' eleventh place.
Final Standings World Cup four-man bob
PosAtletaNatPunti
1
Arndt, Maximilian
GER
1574
2
Holcomb, Steven
USA
1514
3
Florschuetz, Thomas
GER
1400
4
Spring, Chris
CAN
1400
5
Zubkov, Alexander
RUS
1292
6
Melbardis, Oskars (J)
LAT
1228
7
Friedrich, Francis (J)
GER
1228
8
Kasyanov, Alexander
RUS
1160
9
Rush, Lyndon
CAN
1158
10
Kripps, Justin
CAN
1144
16
Bertazzo, Simon
ITA
858
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