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No surprise in the second of the five trails Russians qualification at next year's World Cup. The new plant of Sochi, the winners of the first selection, were reconfirmed at the top of their respective disciplines, starting to make a serious claim on obtaining the'' pass for next season.
Saturday 19 October 2013 4 minutes reading time
In the men's race was characterized by detachment rather content. The grand old man of the sled, Albert Demtschenko, is in fact managed to precede just 41 millessimi the'' eternal rival Viktor Kneyb and 77 millessimi the surprise of the day Evgeniy Voskresenskiy. Disappointing performance for the young promise of the Russian Alexandr Peretjagin sledding, who finished in fifth place only unable to confirm the'' strong second place finish in Lillehammer at the first screening test.
Among women win hands down for Tatiana Ivanova. The leader of the Russian women's movement, has imposed its law trimming detachments'' s other times the main teammates. Ivanova, which according to Natalie Geisenberger and key insiders in Sochi will be among the favorites for the Olympic title, has trimmed 769 millessimi Koreva to Natalia, who for the second time in a row on the podium of the trails. Surprising third place for the little-known dicianovenne Ekaterina Katnikova, which on the future Olympic track has put behind her athletes much more experienced than her, beginning with Alexandra Rodionova reached the foot of the podium.
Race rather pulled even in the two-seater luge, where Denisyev-Antonov were reconfirmed in the first position again mocking Nevmerzhitskiy-Prokhorov to just 62 milliseconds. The podium was completed by experts Yuzhakov-Mahnutin that have closed in 86 milliseconds by the victors.
The third and fourth trails will be held once again on the track in Sochi while the test day will be held on the track at Sigulda in Latvia. At the moment,
Ranking the men's single luge after 2 rounds:
1) Albert Demtschenko 150 *
2) Viktor Kneyb 120 *
3) Alexandr Peretjagin 97 *
4) Evgeniy Voskresenskiy 93 *
5) Semen Pavlichenko 90 *
6) Stefan Fedorov 75 *
7) Maksin Aravin 73
8) Vladimir Pitilimov 67
* Virtually qualified athletes
Ranking women's luge after 2 rounds:
1) Tatiana Ivanova 150 *
2) Natalia Koreva 120 *
3) Alexandra Rodionova 102 *
4) Ekaterina Katnikova 97 *
5) Svetlana Tiunova 85 *
6) Victoria Demtschenko 75
* Virtually qualified athletes
Ranking luge men's doubles after 2 rounds:
1) Denisyev Antonov-150 *
2) Nevmerzhitskiy Prokhorov-127 *
3) Yuzhakov Mahnutin-100 *
4) Bogdanov-Medvedev 90 *
5) Grosev Prokhorov-90
6) Kuzmich-Kuryshkin 75
* Virtually qualified athletes
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