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Victory to the wire for the German Carolin Zenker in the sixth round of the European Cup Women's Bobsleigh went to the scene this morning on the track in Igls.
Thursday 9 January 2014 3 minutes reading time
The Teutonic the second term of the first descent, recovered in the final round the small gap that separated it from teammate Stefanie Szczurek, taking a single cent for the third victory of the season. The podium was completed by today'' English Victoria Olaoye detached 21 cents from the winner.
The two German are the two biggest stars of this edition of the European Cup since the beginning of the season are monopolizing the podium of the European circuit of the bob, closing up to now always in the top-three.
Another good performance for the'' blue crew piloted by Serena Capponcelli and driven by Lisa Pizzi brakeman that beyond the ninth position gained, approached considerably at the time of the first class. Only a month ago in fact, the Italian association accused a delay of more than two seconds while the quest'' today the gap has been slightly higher than the second. A significant improvement that can be a good omen for the coming races of the season.
In the current day as scheduled was held the second bob race at two men, who dominated the German Benjamin Schmid. Teutonic The couple with brakeman Kagerhuber Matthias was the author of the best time heats in the final descent which allowed him to climb to just 2 cents the landlord Benjamin Maier leader after the first run. In third place went to Nico Walther that has so strengthened its leadership position at the top of the cup.
Continues to disappoint the South Tyrolean'' Gschnitzer Lukas, who teamed with Samuel Romanini closed only in eighteenth place more than three tenths of a second and by the victors. Twenty-eighth place for the brakeman Alexander the Great, who raced with George Berdini, while Michael D'' Amico and Rocco Caruso were placed in thirty-fourth position.
Tomorrow the girls will be back on track for the second race in the Austrian land, and men will be engaged in the four-man bob.
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