Germany won the European title in the relay

La Germania vince il titolo europeo nella staffetta
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Germany won the European title in the relay

Germany also won the European Championship relay race as valid and complete the 'en plein season in this race format, having won all six races valid for the ranking of the World Cup of specialty & agrave; pi & ugrave; that of the World Championships in Sigulda. & Nbsp;

The Germans on this occasion have varied training usual dream team that allowed them to win the Olympic title the 'last year and the last two World Championships by placing the winner of the women's single Dajana Eitberger instead of Natalie Geisenberger. The German team has passed the baton of only 6 cents thanks to the Russian Olympic and world champions in charge in the double Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt that in their heats were able to recover 378 thousandths of a disadvantage that Eitberger and Felix Loch had accumulated in the first two fractions against Tatiana Ivanova and Semen Pavlichenko. The dual Russian was composed Alexandr Denisyev and Vladislav Antonov. Russia, thanks to the four podium finishes in the last four relay teams of the World Cup, & egrave; managed to gain second place in the final standings of specialty & agrave ;. Third place went to Latvia formed Elīza Tīruma, Inārs Kivlenieks, and brothers Andris and Juris Sics, separated by 307 milliseconds by the Germans. Fourth place for the United States, 652 thousandths away from the winners of the race, and fifth place for the 'Austria, who accused than 2 seconds of detachment from Germany. Did not participate in the race 'Italy, that this appointment has not brought any athlete to compete in the women's single. The relay blue, after the second-place finish in the first race dell''anno in Lake Placid, & egrave; sank to seventh place in the ranking of specialty & agrave ;, since he had not even participated in the race in Oberhof. & Nbsp;
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