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Stage victory, European title and World Cup, better than that the 2019-2020 season of the maximum circuit of the skeleton for Martins Dukurs could not be concluded. The Latvian champion at Sigulda on his track literally dominated the last round of the season, after two years giving himself another Crystal Ball, the ninth of his career, and the eleventh continental title.
Sunday 16 February 2020 6 minutes reading time
Dukurs who knows every inch of the casing located about forty kilometers from the capital Riga, has brushed every curve of the difficult Baltic track, inflicting heavy detachments on the rest of the competition. The only opponent capable of containing the delay below the second was his older brother Tomass, who on the home track returned to breathe the "perfume" of the podium, giving the Dukurs family yet another brace in Cup competitions. World.
Third place at 1 "06 from the winner, for the South Korean Sungbin Yun who lost a position with respect to the first descent with a second impeccable run. Fourth place for the increasingly convincing Felix Keisinger who, after the junior world title conquered a week ago in Winterberg, Sigulda was given the first major medal of his career in the senior field.
Only Russian Tretiakov finished fifth, the only one who on the eve of the last weekend of the season could still worry Dukurs in the fight against the Crystal Ball. The Olympic champion of Sochi as well as compatriot Tregubov, seventh, failed to find the right feeling with the Latvian gut, giving way to the historic rival.
Excellent sixteenth position for the blue Mattia Gaspari returning to the World Cup after two seasons of inactivity due to a bad injury to the Achilles tendon. The amplitude of the Fiamme Azzurre driver behaved well by demonstrating all his talent in the guided phase of the tough Baltic track, recovering in the second heat also two positions compared to the first descent. Gaspari who had to restart from the European Cup and the Intercontinental Cup this season to have the right to participate in the maximum circuit of the skeleton, still has ample room for improvement considering that following the injury he had to completely change the starting automatisms, passing from pushing on the right side to pushing on the left side of the skeleton.
In Casa Italia we also report the twenty-eighth place of Manuel Schwaerzer who failed to qualify for the second heat.
Thrilling final in the women's race that awarded the World Cup only at the end of the descent of the last athlete to go on the track. The final appointment of the season saw the Russian Elena Nikitina excel who graduated for the second time in her European champion career. The holder of the Crystal Ball preceded by 34 cents the surprising Swiss Marina Gilardoni who, overcoming Janine Flock in second place, prevented the latter from winning the general classification. In fact, the Austrian did not manage to climb the German Jacqueline Loelling to the top of the ranking which in Sigulda seemed rather in difficulty enough to close only in eighth place.
With this dramatic result, the 25-year-old originally from Weidenau entered the history of the female skeleton by right, becoming the athlete with the most Crystal Balls conquered in her career, flanking the British Alex Coomber in this special classification between 1999-2000 and 2001-2002 it was awarded 3 World Cups.
A race to be forgotten in general for the German team and in particular for Tina Hermann, relegated from third to fifteenth place after suffering a reversal in the final heat. The Teutonic was preceded by a position also by the blue Valentina Margaglio who placed herself only 25 cents from the top ten.
Once the World Cup season is over, the skeleton circuit will move to Altenberg for the expected World Championships from next weekend, where the usual races over the distance of the four descents will be staged.
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