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Sixth world title for Martins Dukurs who in the Italian night at Whistler has literally dominated the world competition writing a new page in the history of the skeleton.
Saturday 9 March 2019 4 minutes reading time
The champion of Sigulda showed up at the starting gate of the most important event of the season with a single goal, that of winning the gold medal. Dukurs contrary to what was done in previous years has decided this year to completely change the approach to the races, focusing more attention on the big date by taking advantage of the World Cup competitions as important test materials.
After the heavy Olympic defeats, the greatest athlete in the history of the skeleton has in fact focused his attention to the Olympic Games in Beijing 2022 where he will point in no uncertain terms to that Olympic gold which is the only laurel that currently lacks in his unrepeatable career.
The thirty-four-year-old Baltic at Whistler, in the same track that in February 2010 denied him a well-deserved Olympic gold medal, was simply perfect by printing the best lap times in all four downhill runs while setting a new record for Canadian gut.
Dukurs has over half a second (51/100 ed) the Russian Nikita Tregubov and 88 cents the Olympic champion Sungbin Yun, winning his fourth consecutive world title, the sixth of his career achieved in the last seven editions of the world championship .
Dukurs aside, the great protagonist of the world competition was the Korean Yun who after remaining lingering in the first two races, in the second day of competition was the only one that times the hand has approached the winner's time points, recovering three positions and climbing for the second time in the career on the podium.
Fourth place for the German Grotheer (98/100 from Dukurs ed), fifth for the older brother of the winner Tomass Dukurs who in two final heats has dropped two places, sixth the fresh winner of the World Cup Aleksander Tretiakov that in this world championship He definitely disappointed.
Twenty-fifth position for the 'only blue in the race, the' Italian-Canadian Joseph Cecchini, who failed to qualify for the fourth and last descent.
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