Dominik Fischnaller wins in Lillehammer! Zoeggler excellent fourth

Dominik Fischnaller vince a Lillehammer! Zoeggeler ottimo quarto
Photo information

Getty Images

LugeLuge - Lillehammer

Dominik Fischnaller wins in Lillehammer! Zoeggler excellent fourth

Start the season in the best possible light blue toboggan male. Dominik Fischnaller has indeed won his first career success in the first outing of the season in Lillehammer.

The South Tyrolean today was the author of an extraordinary performance competing in two runs perfect that allowed him to close sharply in the first position. The italian athlete had already made it clear things from the first run in which he had set a new track record that'' had placed in first position provisional. Fischnaller, was repeated in the Heat making a final time almost identical to the first down that allowed him to further increase its gap with the most renowned German rivals. the twenties of Rio Pusteria, has built its success in the central section of the track marking tips Norwegian high speeds that allowed him to close the gap being accused of departure. The performance of the'' blue is rather encouraging riders for the future given that on this occasion he dimostato to be improved significantly in the fundamental departure d'' Achilles' heel last season. The track in Lillehammer continues to bring good to the color blue. With the success of today's share rose to 4 wins in Italian Norwegian land. The blue triumphant day was completed by the fourth place by Armin Zoeggeler. The phenomenon of Foiana, was negatively affected by times of very high thrust that did not allow him to gamble on a par with the first three in the final standings. The proof of Zoeggeler is still positive and bodes well for the upcoming seasonal events. The big beat of the day was the German Felix Loch. The big pre-race favorite, failed to make a difference during the final round catching only a few thousandths against teammate David Moeller. Loch, in fact was preceded by only 5 milliseconds from the national champion German author of two extraordinary departures but was unremarkable in the tour of the track. Loch and Moeller have avoided a sensational German debacle. In fact, even in the men's race has seen a number of compensatory measures by many bearers of Germany, a little'' as happened yesterday in the women's category. Andi Langenhan, second in last year's World Cup, finished in thirteenth place an'' anonymous blaming a delay of more than half a second behind the winner, while Johannes Ludwig did even worse peaking at twenty-fourth place. In addition, on Friday, the young Julian von Schleinitz, rovesciatosi during the Nations Cup, had failed even to qualify for the race today. Great team performance on the part of Austria'' who placed three athletes in the top ten. Wolfgang Kindl and Daniel Pfister ended in fifth and sixth place while Manuel Pfister was ranked in ninth place overall. In seventh ended the'' highlander Albert Demtschenko. The Russian has paid a high gap in the boost phase that did not allow him that they could play on par with the best. In addition to Fischnaller and Zoeggeler, the blue team fielded by the three other athletes. Emanuel Rieder after a decent first descent collapsed in nineteenth position, David Mair finished in twenty-second place while Kevin Fischnaller did not finish the first run. The next round of the World Cup luge will be held in seven days on the track in Igls.

2
Social media engagement