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National team at the starting line: from 15 to 24 June in training between Egna and Maranza, with Dominik Fischnaller to lead the team.
Tuesday 16 June 2020 3 minutes reading time
The pre-season of the blue sled also starts, with 15 athletes called by the technical director Armin Zoeggeler to work ten days in South Tyrol.
Until June 24, the national team will train between Egna and Maranza, with Dominik Fischnaller beacon of a squadron that also counts on his cousin Kevin Fischnaller, as well as Lukas Gufler, Leon Felderer, Ludwig Rieder, Patrick Rastner, Emanuel Rieder, Simon Kainzwaldner, Ivan Nagler, Fabian Malleier, Verena Hofer, Andrea Voetter, Marion Oberhof, Nina Zoeggeler and Sandra Robatscher.
Coaches Mattia Schnitzer and Guenther Taschler also followed them, while in the same period the juniors Lukas Peccei, Alex Gufler, Katharina Putzer and Nadia Falkensteiner will work, followed by the technicians Christian Oberstolz and Klaus Kofler.
The sledging season on the artificial track will start in the last weekend of November in Igls, a World Cup stage followed by the German tour that will go from Altenberg (3-6 December) to Oberhof (9-13) up to Winterberg with the races start on December 16th. The Christmas break will end in early January with the restart from Sigulda (from 6 to 10 of the month) which will also count as the European Championship, then again Germany with Koenigssee from 13 to 17 January. From that moment, if all goes well in terms of the pandemic-related situation, off to the overseas transfers with the stage of Lake Placid (20-24 January) and the Whistler world championships, from 2 to 7 February 2021.
Then it will be the time of the eighth cup stage, on the future Chinese Olympic track in Yanqing from February 17th to 21st, with closure in PyeongChang from February 24th to 28th.
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