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In Sankt Moritz along the beautiful Olympia track, the only one in the world to be built without artificial refrigeration, the Olympic champion Sungbin Yun returns to roar with this success also takes the leadership in the overall World Cup standings.
Monday 28 January 2019 4 minutes reading time
The South Korean who in the first four rounds had always been on the podium in the first four appointments, took a very important success in Switzerland in front of the Russians Alexander Tretiakov and Nikita Tregubov. Yun was the author of an excellent first descent in which he managed to put a certain margin of advantage against the main opponents.
In the final round the Asian has had to sweat the proverbial seven shirts to face the attempt to attack the 2014 Sochi Olympic champion Tretiakov, who from third has climbed to the post of honor arriving only 20 cents from the victory. Thanks to this victory, Sungbin Yun overtakes a single point just Alexander Tretiakov in the general classification, taking first place, when the call is missing only two appointments at the end of the season.
Third place only 7 cents from the team-mate for Nikita Tregubov who with this result also consolidates the third position in the ranking of the cup still remaining in full struggle for the final victory. Fourth position for Tomass Dukurs, however, detached 74 cents from the winner, fifth place for the German Jungk, while only the eighth was the champion Martins Dukurs who compromised his race from the first meters of the first run when his skeleton came out of the starting lines causing the Baltic to lose very important cents and making it sink to the twentieth partial place.
Among women second career success for the Canadian Mirela Rahneva, very good at printing the best time of the day in the final heat. The North American rider with this super second heat has overtaken the Russian Elena Nikitina who was leading the race at the end of the first run.
The podium was completed by the German Jacqueline Loelling detached of 86 cents from the winner who preceded by just 4 cents a demonized Tina Hermann up from the eighth to fourth place. In the overall standings he continues to drive Nikitina with 43 points of advantage over Loelling and 76 over Hermann.
In Casa Italia a seventeenth and a twenty-fifth place arrived from Valentina Margaglio and Manuel Schwaerzer. Two results in line with expectations given that both the boys were at the World Cup debut on the very difficult track in Sankt Moritz.
Now the maximum skeleton circuit takes two break weekends. The World Cup will resume in mid-February with the penultimate stop scheduled on the Lake Placid track in the United States.
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