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Germany's Natalie Geisenberger twenty-seven years to accomplish next February 5, confirms the pi & ugrave; circuit also strong on the track in Oberhof, and mortgage cos & Igrave; the victory of its third consecutive World Cup.
Sunday 18 January 2015 6 minutes reading time
For Geisenberger, world champion and Olympic in office, this & egrave; the sixth win in seven races so far this season. The 'only race that has not won & egrave; Calgary was the sprint of five weeks ago, where & egrave; ranked third.
Even Tatjana Huefner & egrave; managed to oppose and rival all''acerrima & egrave; was forced to settle for second place. The thirty-one native of Neuruppin had finished the first run of 109 thousandths detached from the Olympic champion in office, and set the fastest time in the second run with the 41 515 & egrave; served to improve the track record established by Geisenberger in the previous run, but not & egrave; was enough to take home the victory.
The holder of the crystal ball ended both their descents with a time of 41 552, and in the end he preceded his direct adversary of 72 milliseconds.
The Huefner in the first round had clocked a time of 45 milliseconds better thrust than the winner of today, but he made his entrance into the final with a speed kreisel & agrave; 1.5 mph pi & ugrave; lower than that recorded by the Olympic champion, who had compensated detachment accused in the opening race of the drawing trajectories that had allowed her to gain speed & agrave; and to earn the respect Huefner every intermediate.
On the descent decisive, however, Geisenberger has had a boost of 9 thousandths better than that of the rival, but & egrave; entered the final with a speed kreisel & agrave; a second net less than that of Huefner. Tanto & egrave; enough, however, the native of Monaco of Bavaria to get his win number 29 in single races of the World Cup, including also the sprint race in Igls early season.
This & egrave; the third success for Geisenberger in this track after the victories obtained two and three years ago. Last season was the first place went instead to Tatjana Huefner, who always at this track last month won the German league title ahead of the winner of today's race. Notice how none of Huefner, Langenhan and Eggert-Benecken, who had won the national title a month ago about this basin, managed to win his race this weekend. They all had to settle for second.
The podium today & egrave; was completed by un''altra German, the twenty-four Dajana Eitberger, arrived at the finish with 255 milliseconds of delay from Geisenberger. Eitberger & egrave; managed to recover 17 thousandths that separated her from the Canadian Alex Gough at the end of the first run, and also did mark the most speed & agrave; kreisel day of the entrance to the final with 113.01 km / h. The Gough & egrave; then came to the finish line in fourth position detached from the peak of 368 thousandths.
German athletes win cos & Igrave; all three steps of the podium for the ninth consecutive season, including the race valid for the World Championships in 2008. The 'last to break the' hegemony Teutonic & egrave; was the 'Ukrainian Natalya Yakushenko, finished third in a World Cup race in January 2006.
Distant all the others, just think that the fifth placed Anke Wischnewski suffered a detachment of 641 thousandths Geinsenberger the finish.
In the overall standings Olympic champion goes cos & Igrave; to 670 points, followed by Tatjana Huefner with 475 points and Dajana Eitberger to share 441.
Not c''erano Italian entered in this race, since & eacute; Sandra Robatscher Voetter and Andrea were both involved this weekend at the World Junior Championships in Lillehammer. & Nbsp;
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