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Si & egrave; took place in the late afternoon yesterday, the second edition of Lillehammer Cup, the first international race of the season to contend on a gut entirely frozen.
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The competition was attended by all the main representatives of the ten national (Italy, USA, Latvia, France, Great Britain, Austria, Poland, Sweden, Norway and the German team C) that Tuesday & igrave; last week are engaged in collective testing.
In the absence of Germany, the Italian team has made its voice capturing the beauty of 4 podiums. In the men's Dominik Fischnaller preceded by only one thousandth the Latvian Kristaps Maurins. The 'blue big revelation of last season and the future man of reference of the team flag, he rode a comeback race down the signing in the second fastest time in the heats, stripping un''inezia victory at rival Baltic. For Fischnaller is the second success in this pre-season, in early September in fact, the 'South Tyrolean had won the race to boost Maranza / Meransen. & Nbsp;
Good for third place in the 'other Fischnaller, Kevin, who Sledges with only 80 milliseconds of delay by his cousin Dominik. The other Italians at the start, David Mair and Emanuel Rieder, were placed respectively on the seventh and thirteenth place, while the two junior Fabian & nbsp; Malleier and Theo Gruber concluded their test in the twentieth and twenty-sixth position.
Among women & egrave; sets the 'American Erin Hamlin who has had the better of the seventeen year old German Julia Orlamuender, leader after the first run of 94 milliseconds. Encouraging third place for 'blue Andrea Voetter that stopped the clock with a delay of 232 milliseconds from the winner.
In the double victory rather sharp for the brothers Latvian Sics-Sics, bronze medal at the Olympics in Sochi. The partnership of 153 thousandths Baltic preceded the Austrian duo Penz and Fischler-189 double blue formed by veterans Christian Oberstolz and Patrick Gruber who have had the better of the countrymen Ludwig Rieder and Patrick Rastner. Good performance in Italy House for young people Gruber-Kainzwalder that next season should take part in all events in the calendar of the World Cup. & Nbsp;
Finally it should be noted that the results of Lillehammer Cup leave the time they are in the first place because egrave &; not all athletes are committed to 100% preferring to experiment with new techniques, and secondly because egrave &; all''appello missing 3 of the 5 national pi & ugrave; Important sledding, Canada, Russia and especially Germany whose athletes would certainly have changed the 'outcome of the charts.
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