Tobogganing - National Championships
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Incredible epilogue in the Russian National Championships of artificial luge track, which were played last weekend in Sochi. The men's race in fact & egrave; was won or rather dominated by Albert Demtschenko champion sledding, that one year after retirement from competition has decided to return to the track & nbsp; to challenge pi & ugrave; young countrymen.
Monday 23 March 2015 5 minutes reading time
The 'ultra-forties native of & nbsp; Chusovoy that this season has followed as a coach the team & nbsp; junior Russian, literally dominated the national demonstration proving to all his enormous talent despite the' inevitable rust acquired during this long years of inactivity & agrave ;.
Demtschenko printed in both run in the program the best references chronometric detaching of Stepan Fedorov well 266 milliseconds and 426 milliseconds the number one favorite of the day before the world champion and European Semen Pavlichenko. Excellent fourth place just five thousandths from the podium for Roman Repilov & nbsp; great hope of the Russian team, which after the World Junior title in Lillehammer it gives a great performance in a review senior. & Nbsp; Curiously among the talented young Russian and the winner of the championships Demtschenko c '' & egrave; Unlike a registry of the beauty of five decades, which brings further evidence the 'incredible run of form of the pi & ugrave; great Russian luger of all time. & nbsp;
In the women happened to Tatiana Ivanova confirming the national title won last year. The spearhead of the team rose Russian had to invent a stunning second run to get the better of a combative Ekaterina Baturina who had finished the first run only 3 milliseconds from the leadership. Ivanova closes with a win a second part of the season very positive which among other things gave her the 'world silver and a success in the World Cup. For twenty-three of the talented & nbsp; Chusovoy is now more care the 'psychological aspect in order to better face the tension factor in pi & ugrave; an opportunity denied all''atleta Russian great satisfaction.
The podium is completed by veteran Natalia Khoreva that preceded nell''ordine Katnikova and the daughter of 'art Demtschenko Victoria. & Nbsp;
Between the double surprise success of young Andrey Bogdanov and Andrey Medvedev fresh world champions under 23. The young Russian association of nearly pulled off 4/10 twice as great revelation this season Denysev-Antonov and over half according to experts Yuzhakov-Prokhorov .
The national demonstration showed un''enorme growth of the movement of the Russian luge track that saw the beauty of 40 athletes (15 men's single, 10 double and 15 single women) compete for their respective national titles. These numbers alone explain the 'good work & nbsp; held in the past decade by the Russian Federation that currently & egrave; the 'only national federation to boast a group of practitioners equal to that of Germany nation beacon of this discipline.
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