LugeWorld Cup - Altenberg
Penultimate round of the luge World Cup last weekend in Altenberg and in the women confirms German rule seen yesterday among men.
Wednesday 17 February 2016 3 minutes reading time
The female test, valid also for Europeans, & egrave; It was in fact won by German Tatjana Huefner, who triumphed in the comeback after the third time in the first heat.
In the lead after the first run, in fact, the Latvian Eliza Cauce party suffered badly in the second test, he loses more & ugrave; four tenths all''avversaria and it closes in second place in the Huefner +0.211. Third Russian Tatiana Ivanova, who also lost her a position in the second race, and ends distant 0.313 seconds behind the winner.
A third place that is expensive to Ivanova, who sees vanish world comeback dreams and delivery all''altra German Natalie Geisenberger the World Cup 2016. The German, in fact, it was presented to Altenberg with 119 points ahead of Russian and in the first round commits some mistakes too, he does not push as usual and ended in seventh place, virtually putting Ivanova in the running for the final test of Winterberg.
But in the second downhill Geisenberger is worse only by fellow Huefner and goes up the standings to fourth, just behind the Russian, and yielding only 10 points in the overall standings. Where, now, commands with 810 points compared to 701 Ivanova, a gap impossible to fill with one race to go, and, therefore, the Geisenberger was able to celebrate the victory of the World Cup early.
Thirteenth in 1006 by winning the & rsquo; blue Sandra Robatscher after two rounds almost a photocopy. Now last appointment, as mentioned, this weekend in Winterberg, where to memorize options the games are gi & agrave; facts.
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