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Victoria'' s mind without too many worries for Natalie Geisenberger and the duo world champion in charge Wendl-Artl in the second qualifying trails inside the German team, which took place last weekend in Koenigssee.
Tuesday 22 October 2013 6 minutes reading time
The dominator of the last season was the'' only athlete of the three disciplines of the sled, capable of repeating itself in the second round of qualifying for the World Cup next year. The Bavarian house of the basin has signed the best times in all three rounds in the program, cleaving of 187 milliseconds young teammate Dajana Eiberger, the only athlete in a position to be able to contain a reasonable delay. To tell the truth the margin between the winner and his immediate pursuer would have been much higher if the German Federation had drafted the final taking into account the responses of chronometric all three rounds instead of discarding the worst run.
In third place was closed Corinna Martini that by just 18 thousandths'' the rising star of German luge Aileen Frisch. Both slittiniste have still paid a detachment abyssal (more than half a second) against Natalie Geisenberger. Try colorless even for the veteran Anke Wischnewski piazzatasi in sixth place. The test was not involved in the Bavarian Olympic champion Tatjana Hüfner for the usual back problems.
At the end of the first two of the three races in the program, the head coach Norbert Loch stated that it had a clear idea about which athletes will represent Germany in the upcoming season, "Geisenberger and Dajana Eitberger proved to be very consistent and very fast when starting here at Koenigssee. heartened This gives us for the upcoming season. believe that these two athletes together with a Tatjana Hüfner in the form are clearly stronger than the other teammates. Thus three of the four places the week of training in Sochi and for the first race in Lillehammer have already been assigned, the'' last vacancy will be decided next Friday in Altenberg. "
Win hands down for the duo Wendl-Artl who have trimmed more than half a second to the main rival of the last season Eggert-Benecken. The two "Bayern-Express" have taken a sort of revenge after the defeat of ten days ago suffered in the first trials of Oberhof. Surprising third place for young Geueke-Gamm, silver junior world champion in 2012, they did lap times very close to those of Eggert-Benecken.
Among men the second consecutive defeat for the phenomenon Felix Loch. The gut of the house, the Olympic champion was beaten by veteran David Möller (pictured) which has a gap of just 28 cents. Another good test for Julian Von Schleinitz who completed the podium. Andi Langenhan, winner of the first trials, has kicked off the event Bavarian following a back injury.
Tests opaque by Johannes Ludwig and Ralf Palik that with the sixth and seventh time Koenigssee see lower their chance to be part of the rooster German World Cup.
"I have seen the excellent performance this'' today," said a satisfied Norbert Loch at the end of the men's race, "especially David, Felix and Julian went very strong.'m Really glad to see Von Schleinitz so competitive. I also want to also emphasize the good evidence of young Eissler and Berkes that have been repeated on good levels already expressed at Oberhof, "said the head coach of Germany.
The last selections will be held on Friday, October 25 gut Altenberg.
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