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Under a heavy snowfall the 'blue was good at making the most of favorable track conditions, thus achieving the first success in the World Cup career.
Sunday 3 February 2019 5 minutes reading time
Robatscher, who started with the pectoral ten, led an excellent descent. With the passing of the minutes the weather conditions have worsened and the gut has slowed down and so the big ones have had difficulty bringing home the result, so much so that the jury had to cancel the second run. For the athlete and the entire blue movement, therefore, an unexpected success has arrived, which had been missing since 1996.
In second place, 90 thousandths from the Italian, the world champion Natalie Geisenberger stood, while on the lowest step of the podium the daughter of art Viktoriia Demchenko rose. The other blue entered in the race was confirmed once again on good levels, Andrea Voetter, 5th to 310 millimeters from the teammate and also preceded by the American Emily Sweeney.
In the post-race the compliments of the technical director Armin Zoeggeler arrived: "This result means that even in the women's field we are growing - he explained to Fisi.org - in the past races there has probably been a bit of luck, this time it was shot in the right direction, but Sandra has been good to be ready ... The girls are growing, they are getting closer to the top and they gain confidence in their vehicles week by week, the confidence that is lacking in the men's field, where we still can not translate into the race the speed we have in training, we struggle to make the necessary qualitative leap, the important thing is to look ahead and set a goal ".
The men's race, held on Saturday, was won by the German champion Felix Loch, who after winning the seventh world title last week, also got the first success of the season in the World Cup, the Teutonic with a comeback in the second heat he mocked of 4 thousandths the Austrian Reinhard Egger. Third place instead for Johannes Ludwig, still leader of the general classification but with only 6 margin lengths on Loch. Dominik Fischnaller did not go beyond the 10th place, which preceded by a few thousandths his cousin Kevin 11th.
Satisfaction for Italy also came in the double, where Nagler / Malleier, finishing in 5th position, achieved the best result in his career. The Austrians were Steu / Koller, who beat the Germans Eggert / Benecken by 43 thousandths and the Latis Juris and Andris Sics by 386 thousandths. Good performance also for the other blue couple composed by Ludwig Rieder and Patrick Rastner, sixth at the end of the race. Instead, E. Rieder / Kainzwaldner closed in 13th place.
Because of the heavy snowfall that prevented the second round of the women's race, the team test was also canceled.
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