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After a fast of just over a year, Martins Dukurs returns to rule in the Skeleton World Cup. The strongest skelettonist of every age in Igls in Austria has resumed roaring, earning his first success of the season and especially the tenth consecutive European title of his wonderful career.
Monday 21 January 2019 4 minutes reading time
The champion Latvian thanks to a first descent to say the least masterly has immediately made the difference, trimming 22 cents to the first of the opponents the German Axel Jungk. In the final heat, the baltic completed the work by signing the second partial time which allowed him to gain further ground on rivals, ending with 28 hundredths of a lead over the rebounding Sungbin Yun that third climbed on the second step of the podium, bypassing of only one cent Jungk.
Dukurs who after the 'umpteenth Olympic disappointment had started the season quietly with a second place in Sigulda followed by two anonymous seventh positions in Winterberg and Altenberg, in Tirol has finally seemed in place even though it seems to still have considerable room for improvement.
The Baltic thanks to this victory, the fifty-first of his career, makes a significant leap forward in the World Cup standings, taking third place only 63 points from the fourth Alexander Tretiakov leader in Igls.
Race subtly for Nikita Tregubov who placed only in ninth place, while the 'only blue in the race Manuel Schwaerzer was ranked in the twenty-sixth place not qualifying for the second run. Italian colors went much better in women, with Valentina Margaglio who took a very good tenth place in her fourth career exit in the World Cup.
The 'alexandrina has also confirmed on this occasion to have become one of the reference athletes in the fundamental push, qualities that have allowed her to be very competitive on a short track like that of Igls. The 'blue who still has huge room for improvement in the driving phase, he first printed the' eleventh race time, then in the second he did even better by scoring the 'eighth reference taking only 30 cents from the top five.
The race was literally dominated by the home athlete Janine Flock who trimmed the beauty of 43 cents to the leader of the general classification Elena Nikitina and 45 to the German Jacqueline Loelling winner of the last Crystal Ball.
The next round of the skeleton circuit is scheduled for 6 days on the Sankt Mortiz circuit.
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