LugeTobogganing - Koenigssee
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Victory for dispersion for the German champion Felix Loch in Koenigssee in the sixth round of the Luge World Cup on artificial track.
Sunday 4 January 2015 5 minutes reading time
The twenty-five from Thuringia but grew strongly competitive in Bavaria, quest''oggi gave the 'yet another demonstration of strength. Loch & egrave; was the 'only athlete in the race able to get under the wall of 50 seconds in both races scheduled, trimming heavy detachments to the rest of the company. Two-time Olympic champion drew lines practically perfect on a track that step by step started to slow down due to the high temperature and rain mixed with snow & egrave; copious fall for the 'entire competition.
The adverse weather conditions have been more help to the German ace thanks to fast material did literally empty in the final part of the track. The success of today's third season allows Loch gain a lot of ground in the race for the World Cup, as his rival pi & ugrave; difficult Dominik Fischnaller closed only thirteenth.
Quest''ultimo & egrave; definitely the big disappointment of the day. The 'blue second in the overall standings & egrave; stumbled into a bad day on a track that would have had to elevate his driving skills. Instead Fischnaller not & egrave; managed to find the right set up of materials committing several smears in both runs, accusing a delay of more than one second and two tenths behind the winner. Un''autentica drubbing for the twenty-one of Mühlbach and the 'whole Italian team in the German first trip of the season comes out decisively with broken bones, coming sopravvanzata favored, not only from Germany but also from Austria, the United States and Russia .
The other four blue race indeed have collected only: a nineteenth, twenty-one, a ventissettesimo and a twenty-eighth place respectively with Kevin Fischnaller, David Mair, Emanuel Rieder and Theo Gruber. The bad performance today hardly will come & agrave; redeemed in the next round of the season, scheduled in two weeks in Oberhof, since the characteristics of the track of Thuringia ill marry with the driving characteristics of tobogganists Italian. The 'Italian therefore will have & agrave; try to re-launch in Winterberg nell''ottavo round of the series, to try to revive a rather disappointing season so far.
Closed the long and dutiful parenthesis Italian, today's race marked the return of Andi Langenhan in the neighborhoods of the standings. The new German champion has in fact ended in second place thanks to a stunning second run that allowed him to recover three placings. The 'athlete of Thuringia who accused a delay of 755 milliseconds from Loch, preceded by 54 thousandths of a positive Chris Mazdzer third consecutive podium this season. Beautiful test even for the Russian Fedorov Stefan quarter, which improves the seventh place in Igls his best ever result in the World Cup.
Great team performance even for the 'Austria 4 square its representatives in the first 12 places in the ranking. Wolfgang Kindl finished sixth ahead of Daniel Pfister, while the two young Frauscher and Gleirscher were placed in eleventh and twelfth place with quest''ultimo who had finished the first half in third place.
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