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Roman Repilov is the winner of the 2019-20 edition of the men's sledding World Cup. In Koenigssee in the last round of the season, the young sled phenomenon managed to put the blue Dominik Fischnaller behind him who tried to bring back to Italy a title that has been missing for 9 seasons.
Sunday 1 March 2020 12 minutes reading time
Challenge two had to be and challenge two was. Dominik Fischnaller and Roman Repilov did not spare themselves in what will go down in history as the craziest World Cup edition ever. The two contenders, separated on the eve by a single length, have battled each other since the first descent with the Russian (the first of the two to go on the track ed.) Brighter than the blue in the final stretch and with Fischnaller definitely more on the ball in the high part. Result? After the first 1346 meters of competition, Repilov led the challenge with an advantage of just 72 thousandths on the Italian. All that remained was to wait with fibrillation for the second and decisive run, which this time saw Fischnaller leave in front of the opponent.
The Carabiniere di Maranza under the watchful eyes of Dt Zoeggeler, one who knows about World Cups, invented a solid final run to try to put pressure on his rival, but Repilov as a consummate champion did not get caught up in the emotion, he printed the thrust record and with a shrewd and clean descent he promptly responded to the opponent by rifling him over 200 thousandths, going to conquer his second career World Cup with full merit.
Despite the bitter disappointment with Koenigssee's result, Dominik Fischnaller can still look forward to his season with optimism. The twenty-six year old South Tyrolean played his best winter this year, finding that consistency of performance that allowed him to aim for the podium in every event. The blue has also been able to better manage various difficult race situations, a sign that has now reached full competitive maturity and that therefore in the coming seasons, materials and injuries permitting, will be able to be constantly among the absolute protagonists.
Beyond the exciting challenge for the Crystal Ball, today's race saw German Felix Loch roaring again. The two-time Olympic champion in front of his home crowd has resumed his commitment, showing everyone his immense talent again. Loch set the fastest time in the first heat, but was then undermined by Pavlichenko, Mueller and Repilov from the podium.
In Casa Italia, in addition to the fifth place of Dominik Fischnaller, there are the fourteenth place of Kevin Fischnaller and the twenty-first of Leon Felderer.
Thus ended a decidedly balanced season as had not been seen for many years, facilitated in particular by the result of Winterberg who completely shuffled the cards. Beyond what happened seven days ago on the gut of Westphalia, what really emerged in this edition of the World Cup was the authentic decline of the German team, which with a Felix Loch running out of motivations and a Johannes Ludwig inconstant, for the first time in 35 consecutive seasons he has not placed any of his representatives in the first three places of the general ranking of the men's singles.
The team led by Norbert Loch is in full generational change, and unlike the female single where paradoxically she is in the opposite situation or a surplus of talented athletes, in the two male disciplines, also thanks to the enormous growth of Russia, Austria, In the past three years, the United States and Italy, Germany has been struggling to find tobogganers who are able to constantly fight for top positions in the ranking and this is also being reflected in team competitions, where the Germans as undisputed leaders now start at par with the other nations.
Germany that in Koenigssee, a male silittino aside, can still celebrate and can do it loudly thanks to Anna Berreiter and especially to Julia Taubitz. The first was the authentic protagonist of the Baverese weekend, able to conquer the second success in the World Cup at the age of twenty and as a debutant in the maximum toboggan circuit, the second, on the other hand, managed to overtake the ranking general the Russian Tatyana Ivanova and to continue the success streak made in Germany which began in the 1998-1999 season.
The two expected protagonists, spaced on the eve of the last race of the season by just 27 points, played a first heat decidedly on a par, with Taubitz who despite some obvious smudges placed in second position with only 20 thousandths of an advantage over his rival. If the race had ended at the end of the first round, Ivanova would have brought back to Russia a title that is missing from the winter of 1989-1990, but as required by the regulations, the final classification is drawn up over the distance of the two heats, and the Russian as often it happens she got caught up in the emotion, disputing a final run full of errors that made her plummet in sixth position, leaving her rival free field. For his part, Taubitz did not hold back, printing the second partial time trial and closing on the second step of the podium, conquering the 2019-20 World Cup for only 8 points.
On the third step of the podium and in the general classification, the art daughter Viktoriia Demchenko climbed, now become a certainty of the female sled, while the blue team obtains two top ten placings with Andrea Voetter seventh and Sandra Robatscher tenth. Always at home Italy good test for the young Marion Oberhofer who took an interesting sixteenth place.
All-German party even among the doubles, where a splendid challenge went down for the stage success that also awarded the Crystal Ball. To win it were Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken who on the track of the home of the "historic" rivals have played two capital heats trimming heavy detachments to all of them. Eggert-Benecken in fact preceded Wendl-Arlt by as much as 266 thousandths, while the rest of the group suffered delays significantly above the second starting from the third Sics brothers on the podium at 1 "059.
With this success, the Thuringian duo also celebrates the conquest of the fifth Crystal Ball, climbing Wendl-Artl by a length, positioning itself in third place all time between the doubles with the richest palmares of World Cups. The special ranking is led by Huber-Raffl blues with 8 trophies, followed by Germans Leitner-Resch with 6.
In Koenigssee the double blues achieved the best team result of the season. The young Nagler-Malleier placed in an excellent fourth position, just ahead of the increasingly positive Rieder-Kainzwaldner who also finished eighth in the World Cup standings. Further back the veterans Rieder-Rastner (eighth ed) still very fast in the push phase, their new starting record of the Bavarian track, but not very precise in the driving phase.
The sledding season will end at 13.33 with the last team event on the calendar. The Italy that hosts Andrea Voetter, Dominik Fischnaller and Nagler-Malleier will try to make up for it by trying to conquer the World Cup for nations that has been missing since the winter of 2005-2006.
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