LugeTobogganing - Sochi
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Germany is four out of four in the luge. After the wins hands down in the trials of single men, single women and double came the long-awaited fourth gold medal in the relay''.
Thursday 13 February 2014 5 minutes reading time
The German team composed of the three neo-Olympic champions Natalie Geisenberger, Felix Loch and double Tobias Wendl and Tobias Artl dominated the team competition for the first time by entering its name in the'' register'' s Olympic gold medal in this discipline.
The battleship Teutonic rivals had virtually dominating in every village and detaching the first opponents by more than a second. Germany has crossed the line ahead of the Russians Tatiana Ivanova, Albert Demtschenko and Denisyev Antonov-authors of a capital trial but was not enough to deal with the German Wunderteam.
The third step of the podium was hoisted Latvia, surprise part of this event, as in the days before the athletes Baltic were reported for good performance expressed in the traditional disciplines of the sled.
The Latvians preceded by just 100 milliseconds the Canadian team credited on the eve of a safe place on the podium. '' The North American team paid extremely errors committed by its top athlete Alex Gough who has not played a fraction'' s height of its blazon Samuel Edney launching with a gap of more than half a second off the pace. '' In the last part of the young Walker-Snith have failed to stem the gap and thus Canada has returned home without a medal in five circles.
Fifth place went to Italy'' which deploys in the first fraction Sandra Gasparini, Armin Zöggeler second and last Christian Oberstolz and Patrick Gruber. The blue team has paid a big penalty as forecast in the initial test with female Gasparini but it never seemed to be able to fight for a place on the podium, with the champion and twice Zöggeler Oberstolz-Gruber who have not been able to mend fences the large initial gap.
'' Disappointing race for Austria in the first fraction not fielded Nina Reithmayer but the young Miriam Kastlunger author of a heat sink to forget who did the white team in seventh place behind the United States.
Final Standings luge team relay
1 N. Geisenberger 54 095 (1) F. LOCH 55 639 (10) T. Wendl / T. ARLT 55,915 (14) 2:45.649 +0.0002 T. IVANOVA 54,429 (3) A. Demchenko 55 775 (13) A. DENISYEV / V. ANTONOV 56,475 (23) 2:46.679 +1.0303 E. TIRUMA 54 745 (5) M. Rubenis 56 048 (16) A. SICS / J. SICS 56,502 (24) 2:47.295 +1.6464 A. GOUGH 54,643 (4) S. EDNEY 56 197 (18) T. WALKER / J. SNITH 56,555 (25) 2:47.395 +1.7465 S. GASPARINI 54 823 (6) A. Zöggeler 56 039 (15) C. Oberstolz / P. GRUBER 56,558 (26) 2:47.420 +1.7716 E. HAMLIN 54,338 (2) C. MAZDZER 56 245 (19) C. Niccum / J. Terdiman 56,972 (30) 2:47.555 +1.9067 M. Kastlunger 55 596 (8) W. KINDL 56,434 (20) A. LINGER / W. LINGER 56,447 (21) 2:48.477 +2.8288 N. WOJTUSCISZYN 54,937 (7) M. Kurowski 56 737 (27) P. POREBA / K. Mikrut 58,079 (34) 2:49.753 +4.1049 V. KOTENOVA 55,600 (9) O. HYMAN 56 926 (29) L. BROZ / A. BROZ 57,279 (31) 2:49.805 +4.15610 V. GBUROVA 55 757 (12) J. Ninis 56 472 (22) M. ZEMANIK / J. PETRULAK 57,936 (32) 2:50.165 +4.51611 O. SHKHUMOVA 55 671 (11) A. KIS 56 882 (28) O. OBOLONCHYK / R. ZAKHARKIV 58,502 (36) 2:51.055 +5.40612 SUNG E. 56 174 (17) KIM D. 57 986 (33) J. PARK / CHO J.M. 58,469 (35) 2:52.629 +6,980
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