LugeTobogganing - Sochi
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It closes with the'' nth best time of Natalie Geisenberger of women's luge competition. A race without a history dominated by'' from beginning to end by Bavarian great champion has held up perfectly the pressure of the eve, playing 4 rounds perfect'' in which gave the impression of not even take too many risks, so much in fact was the its superiority in the central part of Sanki Olympic Sliding Center.
Tuesday 11 February 2014 9 minutes reading time
The champion of Berchtesgaden won with authority, that today is in fact the most successful net ever seen in the 14 editions held so far in the Olympic luge, but it is totally inappropriate to attribute much of the credit for this victory only materials.
Natalie Geisenberger it is in fact presented to Sochi behind two seasons dream, in which he won pretty much everything that you could win a world title, one European, two glasses of the world, and especially in the'' only last year took home 7 of 8 races in which he took part. Performance of this kind are the result of an innate driving skills, an out of the ordinary mental stability and a winning mentality that accompanied'' s proper athletic training and slides expertly prepared by a technician'' s except that responds to the name of Geog Hackl, leading to these incredible results.
Geisenberger thus becomes the tenth German to win the gold medal at the Olympic Games'', continuing the streak of success in Germany began in Nagano 1998. The big party was completed by the Teutonic'' silver medal Tatjana Huefner that already in the third heat had climbed Erin Hamlin, a direct rival for the post of honor''. The defending Olympic title has had to bow to such showdown teammate, but can still rejoice in the conquest of his third medal in five circles of his career in this way equaling the record held by consecutive Olympic podiums compatriot Silke Kraushaar.
The podium was completed by the American Erin Hamlin off by more than a second and three-tenths off the pace, which gave his country a medal historical fact never in the history of the Olympic women's luge the United States was on the podium.
The little-coveted "wooden medal" was won by Alex Gough, from which perhaps we expected something more, since beyond placing the vice-champion of the world has never given the impression that they could'' play for the first three positions. Gough crossed the line ahead what could become his heir in the coming seasons, Kimberley McRae that only twenty-one years, closes its first Olympic experience with a remarkable fifth place.
Sixth place for the veteran German Anke Wischnewski, who has put behind him a disappointing Tatiana Ivanova, athlete'' s most awaited by the large home crowd, that in the two days of racing has never been able to leverage factor field and excellent material made available to him by Walter Plaikner. The Russian will have to recover from this debacle as soon as possible and think about doing well in the team events where Russia could get the second medal of the Olympic luge.
The top ten was completed by Natalia Khoreva, Martina Kocher and Kate Hansen, respectively, eighth, ninth and tenth.
The best of the blue was the more experienced team, namely Sandra Gasparini, fourteenth to nearly four seconds behind the winner and more than 1 second and the tenth ranked 8/10. With this test, the athlete'' Vipiteno / Sterzing confirms the eve of the bad feelings and prejudice welcome miracles in fact excludes from Italy'' s chances of winning a medal in the relay on Thursday.
Well Andrea Voetter in the final round that recovers position and closes the nineteenth place overall, three positions before teammate and junior world champion Sandra Robatscher.
In optics team competition worth mentioning the bad performance of'' Austrian Nina Reithmayer twentieth, which probably has not yet recovered from the serious injury suffered earlier this year in Koenigssee.
Final Standings women's luge
1 N. Geisenberger 49,891 (1) 49,923 (1) 49,765 (1) 50,189 (1) 3:19.768 +0.0002 T. HUEFNER 50,393 (3) 50,187 (2) 50,048 (2) 50,279 (2) 3:20.907 +1.1393 E. HAMLIN 50,356 (2) 50,276 (3) 50,165 (3) 50,348 (3) 3:21.145 +1.3774 A. GOUGH 50,464 (5) 50,402 (5) 50,286 (4) 50,426 (5) 3:21.578 +1.8105 K. McRAE 50,465 (6) 50,454 (6) 50,356 (5) 50,620 (11) 3:21.895 +2.1276 A. WISCHNEWSKI 50,490 (7) 50,476 (9) 50,462 (7) 50,532 (7) 3:21.960 +2.1927 T. IVANOVA 50,457 (4) 50,492 (10) 50,450 (6) 50,607 (9) 3:22.006 +2.2388 N. KHOREVA 50,500 (8) 50,348 (4) 50,599 (9) 50,620 (11) 3:22.067 +2.2999 M. KOCHER 50,560 (9) 50,454 (6) 50,593 (8) 50,559 (8) 3:22.166 +2.39810 K. HANSEN 50,794 (10) 50,581 (11) 50,793 (13) 50,499 (6) 3:22.667 +2.89911 E. Baturina 51,263 (21) 50,457 (8) 50,629 (10) 50,382 (4) 3:22.731 +2.96312 E. TIRUMA 50,926 (11) 50,651 (12) 50,758 (12) 50,736 (13) 3:23.071 +3.30313 A. JONES 50,993 (13) 50,837 (15) 50,745 (11) 50,608 (10) 3:23.183 +3.41514 S. GASPARINI 51,032 (14) 50,803 (14) 50,959 (14) 50,962 (15) 3:23.756 +3.98815 S. Britcher 51,222 (19) 50,930 (16) 51,082 (16) 50,909 (14) 3:24.143 +4.37516 N. WOJTUSCISZYN 51,138 (16) 51,168 (22) 51,141 (19) 51,199 (18) 3:24.646 +4.87817 M. Kastlunger 51,622 (24) 50,795 (13) 51,139 (18) 51,109 (16) 3:24.665 +4.89718 U. ZIRNE 51,125 (15) 51,159 (21) 51,054 (15) 51,347 (21) 3:24.685 +4.91719 A. VOETTER 50,937 (12) 51,592 (27) 51,240 (20) 51,290 (20) 3:25.059 +5.29120 N. REITHMAYER 51,225 (20) 51,143 (20) 51,614 (22) 51,174 (17) 3:25.156 +5.38821 E. Kuls 51,362 (22) 51,031 (18) 51,424 (21) 51,550 (22) 3:25.367 +5.59922 S. Robatscher 51,589 (23) 50,981 (17) 51,678 (23) 51,258 (19) 3:25.506 +5,738
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