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Last Saturday, on the gut Koenigssee have played the German championships skeleton. '' The appointment not only awarded the Bavarian national titles but has also been utilized as the second trials of qualification to the next Olympic season.
Monday 28 October 2013 5 minutes reading time
In the men, Frank Rommel (pictured) has managed to win for the first time in his career the German title by dominating the event. The twenty-nine, world bronze medalist in 2008, has made a difference in the second round where he trimmed heavy detachments to major rivals. At the end of the first run, in fact, the'' athlete of Saxony was driving with a margin of only 10 cents on Christopher Alexander Kröckel Grotheer and falling. In the second drop-down Rommel has scored an incredible 50 "64, improving the performance of the previous run of less than 38 cents and disconnecting the runner-up by over a second and a half!
In second place was the young Von Killian Schleinitz, thanks to a'' good final round has recovered four positions in the standings. Von Schleinitz, class of 1994, preceded by a single penny David Lingmann anch'' he author of a brilliant second run.
In the second run Christopher Grotheer clocked a time of very high pressure that has severely affected the performance, so as to make it sink into fifth position 2 and a half seconds behind the winner. Alexander Kröckel, however, did not take the path of the final round.
The winner of the first qualifier Alex Gassner, after an initial fourth in the first run did not complete the second round.
The women's race was held on a'' single round due to the adverse weather conditions. The gut of the house Anja Huber has returned to lay down the law to win his fifth national title of his career. The four-time European champion and winner Crystal Ball 2011-2012 preceded by 18 cents Katarina Heinz 25 and the winner of the first race seeded Marion Thees.
Another brilliant performance for the eighteen year old Jaqueline Lölling that on this occasion has remained in the top positions of the ranking. Disappointing sixth place for the junior world champion Sophia Greibel that had shone in the early trials of qualification.
The head coach of the German team Jens Müller only in the next and final round of qualifying, which will be held in Altenberg, will announce the names of the three men and three women who will represent Germany in world circuit maximum skeleton.
If the situation in the field of women's qualification appears to be quite clear and defined, with Thees and Huber practically already selected and with a between Heinz and Griebel be played'' the last place available in the men's choice of two Germans who will join the already , qualified Frank Rommel appears quite complex.
Grotheer with a second place in Winterberg and with a convincing first run here in Koenigssee might have a better chance than Gassner and Kröckel. Quest'' last'', however, is recovering from an injury to a tendon and can rely on the extraordinary performance revealed last season's World Cup which closed in third position. Alex Gassner however, will rely on the victory in the first race of the three seeding.
In a few days the'' judge.
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