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The 'Italy is full of medals' gold at the World Championships in luge natural disputatisi this weekend in the resort & agrave; Austrian Sankt Sebastian, and proves once again to be the Country guide the sport. & Nbsp;
Sunday 18 January 2015 3 minutes reading time
In doubles Patrick Pigneter and Florian Clara won their third world title after those of 2009 and 2013, to which must be added the medal 'silver 2011.
The two have dominated the race 2.96 seconds ahead of the Austrians Rupert Brueggler and Tobias Angerer, and 3:04 Russians Pavel Porshnev and Ivan Lazarev, gold in 2011, which received respectively the medal 'silver and the bronze.
The Azzurri then crushed the competition & nbsp; in the single men by placing three athletes on the podium. Pigneter confirms once again to be the pi & ugrave; strong to win his second consecutive world gold and third of his career. The three world titles in single dell''altoatesino were won in the same period of the three titles in doubles. To these must be added the gold bronze medals won in 2005, 2007 and 2011 by the twenty-seven native of Bolzano, winner of the last nine World Cups in specialty & agrave; the individual.
Behind him the medal 'silver and the bronze went Italians Alex and Florian Gruber Breitenberger, detached from Pigneter respectively 61 cents and 1.05 seconds. This & egrave; the fourth hat-trick in the blue men's single at the World Championships, after those of 1980, 1998 and 2005.
In the women's single the twenty-three Evelin Lanthaler won a beautiful medal 'gold ahead of the Russian Ekatharina Lavrentjeva of 73 cents. Bronze medal for the 'other Italian Greta Pinggera, separated by a split second from Lanthaler. & Nbsp;
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