SkeletonSkeleton - Intercontinental Cup
Getty Images
Last weekend the gut of Igls is staged the first act of the second most important series of the skeleton, the Intercontinental Cup''
Monday 9 December 2013 5 minutes reading time
On the eve of the race c'' was great anticipation around two big this sport, Jon Montgomery and Mellisa Hollingsworth, hijacked in this circuit after the bankruptcy trails qualifier in October, which excluded him from the first part of the World Cup.
The major players of the weekend were, however, other Austrian. In the women's British Rose McGrandle has literally dominated the two races on crossing the line on both occasions the German Sophia Greibel. In race 1 the English party was completed by the third place Laura Deas author of a decent second run which enabled it to climb over the most titled Russian Olga Potylitsina. In the second trial was staged Sunday, the third place was won by Svetlana Vasilyeva.
The long-awaited Mellisa Hollingsworth was the'' real disappointment of this two-day races. The two-time winner of the Crystal Ball fact, it did not go beyond the sixth-place finish in the second day, while the first had even finished ninth. Beyond the placings definitely far from the blazon of this great champion what is most striking are the heavy detachments accused by Hollingsworth. The Canadian in the first trial has been delayed and three-tenths of a second in the next race and did not do much better. If in the course of the next few races the trend does not change the Olympic dream might fade Mellisa already in late December.
The test female was also attended by the'' blue Giulia Carpin who finished thirteenth and seventeenth place respectively race 1 and race 2. Igls has also competed Elisaveta Zubkova daughter of the great Alexander Zubkov bobsledder who was ranked in the eighteenth and sixteenth position.
Among men, there has been increased competition. On the first day he won the German Von Killian Schleinitz of 16 cents that preceded the strong compatriot Christopher Grotheer anch'' he diverted Intercontinetal Cup for technical choice, and the South Korean Yun Sungbin second ex-aequo. In the second race was the Russian Nikita Tregybov triumph. Behind closed again Sungbin while Von Schleinitz completed the podium.
The palm of the worst of the weekend if the'' deserved'' s most anticipated athlete Jon Montgomery. The Olympic champion in Vancouver is out of the top ten in the first race and the second barely finished in tenth position. Results definitely not all'' height of his fame that perhaps are rooted in the limited athletic summer due to the many commitments that the'' extra sports have seen involved.
'' The Italian was represented by Italian champion Giovanni Mulassano who gather enough thrust a twenty-third and twenty-fourth place. Better than he did Gaspari Mattia who finished in fourteenth and fifteenth.
The next round of the second circuit of the skeleton will be held over the weekend in Altenberg.
Social media engagement
Più letti in Sport invernali
Goggia continua con il gigante a Ushuaia, poi ci sarà il Cile. Da Rast a Scheib e Aicher, cosa stanno facendo le big
In Argentina, dove ieri è stata giornata di riposo per le slalomgigantiste azzurre (per i colleghi uomini delle discipline tecniche ultime sessioni e rientro il 10 settembre), Sofia prosegue nell'ottimo lavoro tra le porte larghe, dedicandosi poi solo alla velocità a La Parva. In Cile ci sono la stiriana regina dell'ultima stagione di gigante, in Nuova Zelanda (con la cancellazione anche oggi degli slalom di ANC a Coronet Peak) Colturi si allena con Marchant, i norvegesi di coach Del Dio ci danno dentro a Ohau come gli svizzeri di Noris.
2