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The'' blue Joseph Cecchini closes with a sixth place finish the long weekend of races in Park City. The Italian-Canadian'' in the third race of North-American Cup staged on the gut of Utah, has benefited from the absence of the Russians and Tretyakov Chudinov to center the best result of the weekend.
Wednesday 27 November 2013 3 minutes reading time
Cecchini fifth after the first run, in the final descent was overtaken by Canadian Barett Martineau, who thanks to his third time in the heats moved up four positions. The'' blue'' in the whole arc of the weekend American was not able to cope with competition and contrary to what is shown in Calgary last week, has been slow, very heavy against second-tier athletes as Asians.
These benefits have subsided a bit'' the great enthusiasm manifested at the end of the tests of Calgary, however, the North American series is still long and certainly the Italian champion will give maximum guarantee for an extra seat at the next Olympics his "new" country.
The final race was won by the Japanese Shinsuke Tayama (pictured), which thanks to the best reference lap recorded in the final descent has overtaken the South Korean Yun Sungbin just 14 cents. Quest'' last weekend closes a major in optics final standings of the series, because thanks to two third places respectively obtained in race 1 and race 2 and the second step of the podium in the third test, wins a substantial hoard of useful points at the end of the season .
The podium was completed by'' Irish Sean Greenwood detached one-hundredth of a second and the winner.
In the women's victory went to Elisabeth Vathje. The Canadian was the author of a great performance that has enabled it to beat European champion Elena Nikitina of 12 cents. In third place closed a'' other representative of Russia, Olga Nikandrova, separated by 91 cents from the winner.
The third act of the North-American Cup, the sixth counts towards the final standings, will be held on Wednesday, December 4 gut Lake Placid.
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