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Extraordinary in the final race of the four-man bob World Championships in Winterberg. The German Maximilian Arndt you & egrave; graduated world champion of specialty & agrave; for the second consecutive year, ahead of only 2 cents compatriot Nico Walther and 12 Latvian Oskars MelbÄrdis.
Sunday 8 March 2015 9 minutes reading time
A fourth round that beautiful & egrave; staged this afternoon on gut dell''Hochsauerland, which held its breath & nbsp; thousands of spectators arriving in crowds to applaud the exploits of their heroes. After three descents fact four athletes were still in the running for the medal 'gold, with defending champion Maximilian Arndt who was driving with a margin of one hundredth of Melbardis, three out of 17 and Walther Friedrich. With this uncertainty c''erano promises to attend a drop vibrant conclusive, and & nbsp; the show is not & egrave; failure.
The first of the four contenders starting & egrave; Francesco Friedrich was not amazing that after the third heat is & egrave; invented un''ottima fourth run, characterized by greater clean lines & nbsp; in the stretch pi & ugrave; Technical dell''impianto German. The winner of the test of two-man bobsleigh has cos & Igrave; put great pressure to the other three opponents advancing intentions comeback. Comeback immediately rejected by peer Nico Walther that the first world senior career he invented a formidable starting & nbsp; by printing his best reference lap in that sector, which guaranteed him a higher speed & agrave; nell''affrontare the remaining part of the basin. The twenty-four of Altenberg & nbsp; authentic revelation this season, he then invented the perfect lines in kreisel that carried him across the finish line with the best time in the heats.
At this point it was up to go down to the first two Class: Oskars MelbÄrdis and Maximilian Arndt. The Baltic started immediately strong equaling the record of thrust, but during insertion of the second and third of the Latvian bobsleigh brakeman swerved to the right defeating the 'exceptional departure. With this error Melbardis & nbsp; his name was in fact out of the fight for the win, crossing the line behind Walther, & nbsp; saving however bronze for only 5 cents.
Arndt instead was right at the decisive moment his best boost that allowed him to play all their cards in the technical part of the gut of the house. At this point between the twenty-seven of Oberhof and compatriot Walther & egrave; turned an exciting fight on the edge of cents that rewarded the world champion of St. Moritz in 2013 for just two hundredths of a second, un''inezia! & nbsp;
The neo-world champion has prevailed over more & ugrave; young teammate through better output from the sequence of curves 11,12 and 13, which allowed him to get a speed & agrave; peak higher than that of the rival. For Arndt is the second world title in a row, while Germany is celebrating a brace that was missing in 2012 when dall''edizione in Koenigssee prevailed Manuel Machata front of Karl Angerer. & Nbsp;
Melbardis with bronze today instead, the complete collection of metals in appointments pi & ugrave; important, given that twelve months ago are in Sochi gave the medal 'Olympic silver. Curiously for the Baltic to today & egrave; the first world bronze career, & nbsp; as in 2009 in Lake Placid is aggiudic & ograve; third place as a member dell''equipaggio piloted by Janis Minis, that on that occasion he obtained the first historic medal & nbsp; World Championships in Latvia.
Completing the top five a positive Lamin Deen equaling fifth place two years ago got from John James Jackson. For the British closes a fantastic season that the 'brought in the elite of the discipline after only three years of training as a pilot, he was born brakeman. Behind him concluded the Swiss Peter Rico last athlete in the race to contain the gap below the second behind the winner.
Are placed in seventh, and ninth all''ottavo disappointing Alexander Kasyanov, Chris Spring and Steven Holcomb who have never been in this world of the game. Excellent result instead of Jan Vrba, giving the Czech Republic an incredible tenth place, the best result ever for the Czech driver in a world championship.
It closes with a fourth down decidedly subdued, the 'adventure rainbow of Simone Bertazzo unique blue to have qualified to the final round. The driver of the Carabinieri Sports Group turned in a trial full of small barbs that cost him the 'last part-time. The pilot of Pieve di Cadore as always accompanied by brakemen Simone Fontana, Constantine Ughi and Francesco Costa, & nbsp; & egrave; still managed to save the seventeenth place for a single penny sull''austriaco Maier and the Korean Won, getting a result below expectations.
Bertazzo & nbsp; & Igrave closes cos; a season that offered him such joy pi & ugrave; great fifth place in Sankt Moritz over the double title in the European Cup, although to be honest the gap between the Italian rider and the main protagonists of the world circuit is still too marked and & egrave; necessary than ever to find a solution to solve the problem of thrust, where the fundamental blue bob & egrave; still too far behind the competition.
Close twenty-sixth position blues Lukas Gschnitzer, Alexander the Great, Rocco Caruso and Mattia Variola who failed to qualify for the final round.
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