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The 2019-2020 season starts in the best way for the national blue sledge run on an artificial track. On the gut of Igls in Austria, the team led by Armin Zoeggeler achieved success in Team Relay and took an excellent third place with Dominik Fischnaller in the men's individual test, launching important signals for the rest of the season.
Sunday 24 November 2019 10 minutes reading time
The exciting team competition saw the Azzurri fight against the thousandths with the hosts of Austria who on the friendly track presented themselves with the favors of the prediction. Launched by an excellent first fraction of Andrea Voetter who contained the delay on the German Julia Taubiz by signing the second part-time and by a good Dominik Fischnaller who was able to limit the gap from the Austrian adventurer Jonas Mueller who brought the Austria in first place at the second change, the Italian tobogganists have clung to the young duo Ivan Nagler-Fabian Malleier who with a run to say the least perfect have overtaken the white-reds in extremis, giving Italy the first seasonal success with a waste of just 25 thousandths.
Third place for a subdued Germany that with a Felix Loch and an impeccable fraction of the double Eggert-Benecken fought only for the third step of the podium ahead of only 59 thousandths a good Canada.
But the good news in Casa Italia did not stop at Team Relay, a few hours before Dominik Fischnaller closed the men's single race in third place in a test characterized by the high temperatures that affected the entire Tyrolean weekend.
The twenty-six of Maranza fourth at the end of the first heat, in the final descent was able to avoid committing big smudges and to pull clean lines despite a track that went from slow to slow. A situation that allowed the Russian Roman Repilov to recover as many as 15 positions during the second round, taking him from 16th to second place, and which also claimed excellent victims such as the other Russian skidding ale Aleksandr Gorbatcevich who collapsed from the second partial square in 32nd and last position, giving Fischnaller the first podium of the season.
At FISI, the South Tyrolean commented on his performance today, "A start like this is really perfect. In the first run I did very well, but I had the last starting number and the track was very slow, given the the temperatures in Innsbruck, in the second I made a small mistake at turn 13, but I managed to catch the podium and that's okay, I feel very good and I have a good feeling with the new materials. in Lake Placid, on another track that I like and where I feel good ".
Those who could sleep peacefully were Austrian Jonas Muller, who won the first World Cup victory on his home circuit. The twenty-two, originally from Bludenz in the Voralberg, played an exclamation point in the first round and in the second he found those safety lines that allowed him to close in first place with a reassuring margin of 147 thousandths on Repilov. For the young Austrian, therefore, comes the most important joy of his career, he who in the general amazement won the world title in the sprint test of the Winterberg World Championships last January.
Fourth and fifth place for two other Austrians, demonstrating that the field factor was determined today, with at the foot of the podium Nico Gleirscher and fifth a little satisfied Wolfgang Kindl, who preceded an extinct Felix Loch (sixth) who has confirmed in the field the desire to want to focus more on the World Championship this season than to look at the Cup standings.
Twentieth, twenty-first and twenty-eighth position for the other three Azzurri in the race, Kevin Fischnaller, Leon Felderer and Lukas Gufler. If for Dominik's cousin there is a bit of disappointment especially after a first round closed in sixth place, the results of the other two Italians are decidedly encouraging considering that both were at their debut in a Cup competition World.
The high temperatures have definitely influenced the result of the double and female sled tests. Among the crews Germany has signed the first double win of the season with Toni Eggert-Sascha Benecken who preceded by just 9 thousandths the eternal rivals Tobias Wendl-Tobias Arlt with the Austrians Steu-Koller to complete a podium repeatedly seen last season, but all these associations had been surprisingly preceded after the first descent by the Chmielewski-Kowalewski Poles who had found much better ice conditions. In the decisive run the two "protagonists" of the first round as predictable have sunk to the 13th place leaving the stage again to the "usual suspects".
In Casa Italia, more shadows than lights in a discipline that has given so much satisfaction in the past. The best of the Italian doubles was the one composed by Ivan Nagler-Fabian Malleier, then protagonists also in the Team Relay, who placed themselves in sixth position at 247 thousandths from the summit, nineteenth place instead for the disappointing Rieder-Rastner light years away from their best moments.
The first women's race of the post Huefner and characterized by the absence of the other big German Geisenberger and Eitberger, saw the veteran Tatyana Ivanova momentarily rise up. The Russian trediscesima at the end of the first descent, has invented a perfect round taking advantage of a favorable starting number in the final run that allowed her to detach by far the best time of the day. Ivanova preceded by 110 thousandths the American Summer Britcher and 164 thousandths the two German Julia Taubitz favored by the coward, and Jessica Tiebel on the second podium of the career, who finished third in the ex-equo place.
Tenth place in comeback for the best of the blue Andrea Voetter from which something more was expected even if the second best time of the day carried out in the final round is reason of comfort in sight of the next races of the calendar, while eleventh has reached one more than positive Verena Hofer. Fourth place for the novice Marion Oberhofer, while the curious challenge between the daughters of art went to the Russian Viktoria Demtchenko (twelfth) who preceded Nina Zoeggeler (nineteenth) and Hannah Prock (twenty-sixth).
The next round of the sledding World Cup is scheduled in seven days on the Lake Placid track in the United States.
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