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The'' blue Ludwig Rieder was the great protagonist of the twenty-second edition of the Start Gitschberg Cup, the customary international event thrust which is organized annually on the track of Maranza / Meransen in Alto-Adige.
Sunday 1 September 2013 4 minutes reading time
Absent the leading interpreters of the World Cup including the number one Italian luge, Armin Zöggeler, it was up to twenty-two-bearer of the Sports Centre of Forestry uphold the honor'' blue in the review of the house.
Rieder, thanks to the best times in the first and third and final round was the best for 89 millessimi emblazoned on national team-mate Dominik Fischnaller, junior world champion in office and author of two podiums in the last edition of the World Cup.
Third place went to the'' Austrian Andreas Linger and his brother Wolfgang great specialist of the double luge races, which on this occasion he has experimented with the sledge car. The white and red with this exceptional performance has avoided the all-Italian domain, since the back of the athlete'' Tyrolean have included two other South Tyrol Emanuel Rieder and Patrick Rastner fourth and fifth respectively.
Ludwig Rieder was repeated in the test doubles, where along with fellow Patrick Rastner dominated the scene by clocking the best times in all three runs of the race. The two athletes of Forestry preceded by 113 thousandths compatriots Christian Oberstolz and Patrick Gruber and almost 200 milliseconds, the Austrians Linger-Linger.
In the women, there has been a great struggle for success between the revelation of the second half of last season, Julia Clukey and the veteran Austrian Nina Reitmayer. At the end of the race the decisive'' he ticked off the American who has twenty-five by just 51 thousandths rival and white.
The podium was completed by the young star of the snowmobile world, Aileen Frisch, who in Maranza has been disconnected from the winner of 161 thousandths. The race of thrust, was not involved in the'' blue Sandra Gasparini.
Among the junior men's success in the field of nineteen went to Austrian Thomas Steu while the third is now the best of Italian Florian Gruber. Among girls the South Tyrolean'' Sandra Robatscher won the class ahead of only 7 thousandths the young German (born in 1999) Josephine Meitzner. In junior doubles victory for the duo Gruber blue-Kainzwaldner who beat the Austrians Steu-Koller and other Italian Gruber-Schwaerzer.
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