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Closes in the sign of Elizabeth Yarnold this 12th edition of the World Championships Women's Skeleton played in the last two days on the basin of Winterberg in Germany.
Saturday 7 March 2015 7 minutes reading time
The Great British favored Eve has always made head race even if in the first two runs of the previous day, he found in the Canadian Elisabeth Vathje un''avversaria decidedly tricky. The two athletes had indeed closed the second descent spaced just 7 cents again leaving wide open the discussion for the medal 'gold. Speech that the twenty-five of Maidstone closed during the third heat printing a time very close to the record dell''impianto German that has effectively opened the door to winning his first world title. Nell''ultima descent Yarnold not & egrave; spared by greeting the audience with a new record of the track closing with almost seven tenths ahead of the first beat.
With this success Lizzy becomes the second woman ever to complete the 'hat trick of the skeleton, or the World Cup, Olympic title and world title, a historic achievement especially when you consider that the UK has achieved all these triumphs in just 12 months ! A major victory for Britain that continues to be the nation of reference of this female sport having won the last two editions of the Olympic Games and the World Cup well 4 medals' gold.
Behind the English star & nbsp; & egrave; placed a formidable Jacqueline Loelling that the first race of his career against the best on the planet skeletoniste & egrave; been able to conquer un''incredibile medal 'silver. The twenty-year old native of & nbsp; & agrave Brachbach resort; which is about one hour dall''impianto Winterberg, made the most of his knowledge of manic home track to make a difference in the stretch pi & ugrave; technical, where he recovered with interests around the secondment accumulated in the boost phase. The innate qualities of leadership and the & nbsp; & agrave capacity; to withstand the pressure & nbsp; make this girl a potential dominatrix female skeleton although Loelling dovr & agrave; better treating the start to become really unassailable.
The podium & egrave; was completed by the Canadian Elisabeth Vathje that after the wonderful day yesterday, you quest''oggi & egrave; dall''emozione got caught committing several inaccuracies gi & agrave; during the third descent. In the final run the North American printed only the sixth time seeing partially overcome in the standings rimontante Loelling and risking losing the bronze medal as well as the surprising compatriot Jane Channel is & egrave; placed in fourth position just 6 cents from the podium.
Fifth place for & nbsp; Tina Hermann Janine Flock that preceded the great joke of this World Cup. The 'Austrian is also in the final descent & egrave; expressed at high levels, but the gap accused during the first two rounds has prevented it from being the match for the first three positions. & nbsp;
Completing the top ten positive Laura Deas seventh, eighth Marina Gilardoni, Rose McGrandle Lanette Prediger ninth and tenth. Very disappointing race for the Russian team after losing Elena Nikitina during the first descent, got his best result only the 'eleventh place of Maria Orlova. A performance that will have negative & agrave; to reflect the leaders of the Russian Federation since & egrave; the second consecutive world in which Russia feminine misses the result.
Closes to the applause of the public career of Anja Huber-Selbach quest''oggi who has played his last race of life as an athlete. The thirty-one Bavarian has decided to hang the skeleton to the nail on the occasion of the World Championships where he hoped to collect something more & ugrave; dell''anonimo fourteenth place today. The German leaves the world of the skeleton with all''attivo 1 Crystal Ball, one world title and an Olympic bronze medalist, keeping at the time the summit in the special list of athletes pi & ugrave; Winning races in the World Cup.
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