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Sunday, December 20th, 2009
17th-20th December 2009
Novouralsk/Yekaterinburg (RUS)
First and second place for Russia
The cheers for the Russian win was heard everywhere along the track from the finish line up to the start. It looked like Russia would have to settle for the places two and three when the leading double with Patrick Pigneter/Florian Clara (ITA) crashed into the boards. "We have to see what the reason was, it looks like there was a problem with the runners", said Florian Clara, who as well as Pigneter did not suffer any injuries.
The lucky winners were Russia's Pavel Porshnev/Ivan Lazarev who will leave Novouralsk with a second place (first World Cup) and a win. "That's sport, everybody can crash, for us the result is very good, but the main focus is still the European Championship", said Lazarev and adds that they could have done better in today's race: "After the sixth turn we were braking too much, we could have gone faster there."
Runner up was the second Russian double, Aleksander Egorov/Petr Popov, who achieved their sixth career podium finish, but a second place for the first time. Very pleased were Andrzej Laszczak/Damian Waniczek (POL) who finished third: "We already thought that we would be fourth once again, a place we have had so many times. Now we are happy about the podium, of course it's bad luck for Patrick Pigneter."
The aqotec World Cup will be continued January 8-10, 2010 in Umhausen (AUT).
Final Results Doubles (10):
1. Pavel PORSHNEV/Ivan LAZAREV (RUS), 1:05,07(2), 1:04,78(1), 2.09,85
2. Aleksandr EGOROV/Petr POPOV (RUS), 1:05,59(3), 1:04,90(2), 2:10,49
3. Andrzej LASZCZAK/Damian WANICZEK (POL), 1:06,08(4), 1:05,23(3), 2:11,31
4. Christian SCHOPF/Andreas SCHOPF (AUT), 1:06,16(5), 1:05,87(5), 2:12,03
5. Christian SCHATZ/Gerhard MÜHLBACHER (AUT), 1:06,36(6), 1:05,86(4), 2:12,22
6. Thomas KAMMERLANDER/Christoph REGENSBURGER (AUT), 1:06,88(7), 1.07,00(6), 2:13,88
World Cup Standings (2/6):
1. Pavel PORSHNEV/Ivan LAZAREV (RUS) 185
2. Aleksandr EGEROV/Petr POPOV (RUS) 155
3. Christian SCHOPF/Andreas SCHOPF (AUT) 120
3. Andrzej LASZCZAK/Damian WANICZEK (POL) 120
5. Thomas KAMMERLANDER/Christoph REGENSBURGER (AUT) 105
6. Christian SCHATZ/Gerhard MÜHLBACHER (AUT) 101
7. Patrick PIGNETER/Florian CLARA (ITA) 100
8. Björn KIERSPEL/Christian WICHAN (GER) 81
Chris Karl
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009
FIL Aquotec Natural Track Luge World Cup - Day 3
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Saturday, December 19th, 2009
17th-20th December 2009
Novouralsk/Yekaterinburg (RUS) II
Thomas Schopf and Melanie Batkowski win for Austria
With a spectacular second run rookie Thomas Schopf (AUT) shot himself from the third intermediate rank to the second win within 24 hours. "Before I went into the second run, I told myself: Thomas, give it all, you can do it! I knew that I could do better than in the first run, as I have had some mistakes here and there, but on this track nobody made it all the way down without mistakes." Runner up – again – was Patrick Pigneter (ITA) who is actually happy about the new challenger: "Recently I have had some motivational problems. I have won the overall World Cup four consecutive times and I was somehow missing the last bit of motivation to push myself. Now there is a new challenge and I am looking forward to the season." Lucky third was Thomas Kammerlander (AUT), who achieved his second podium finish in his career. Gernot Schwab (AUT) as Anton Blasbichler (ITA) had been ranked before him after the first run, but had problems in their second runs. "I am happy about the result", said Kammerlander, "last year I did not even finish within the top ten. This is a really difficult track here."
With "two fairly good runs" Melanie Batkowski upset her competitors and fulfilled yesterday's prophecy that she would do a little bit better today than yesterday. "Both runs were not perfect, but I just focussed on myself and saw to hit the braking points at the best moment." Her challengers had to submit to bigger mistakes, Ekatharina Lavrentjeva (RUS) had lost the race in the first run already: "I almost crashed in the first run, so I knew that I could not win any more. My goal was to move from the third place to the second and I am happy that I succeeded." Less happy was Renate Gietl (ITA) with her fifth consecutive third place: "I wanted to move up one rank, but I failed. Melanie and Katharina were too strong today."
Tomorrow, Sunday, the double seater´s event will be held. After that the aqotec World Cup will be continued in Umhausen (AUT) Jan 8-10 with the 100th World Cup race in the World Cup history.
Final Results Women (11):
1. Melanie BATKOWSKI (AUT), 1:02,34(1), 1:02,35(1), 2:04,69
2. Ekatharina LAVRENTJEVA (RUS), 1:03,16(3), 1:02,39(2), 2:05,55
3. Renate GIETL (ITA), 1:03,02(2), 1:03,16(3), 2:06,18
4. Evelyn LANTHALER (ITA), 1:03,83(5), 1:03,41(4), 2:07,24
5. Marlies WAGNER (AUT), 1:03,29(4), 1:04,01(5), 2:07,30
6. Olga SIDOROVA (RUS), 1:04,16(6), 1:04,29(6), 2:08,45
7. Ludmilla ASTRAMOVISH (RUS), 2:08,81
8. Svetlana ZHARAVINA (RUS), 2:10,36
9. Veronika NACHMANN (GER), 2:11,14
10. Nina BUCINEL (SLO), 2:11,25
11. Tina UNTERBERGER (AUT), 2:16,09
Final Results Men (31):
1. Thomas SCHOPF (AUT), 1:00,81(3), 1:00,60(1), 2:01,41
2. Patrick PIGNETER (ITA), 1:00,76(1), 1:00,98(2), 2:01,74
3. Thomas KAMMERLANDER (AUT), 1:01,12(5), 1:01,12(3), 2:02,24
4. Gernot SCHWAB (AUT), 1:00,88(4), 1:01,46(4), 2:02,34
5. Anton BLASBICHLER (ITA), 1:00,80(2), 1:01,56(5), 2:02,36
6. Stefan GRUBER (ITA), 1:01,44(6), 1:01,97(8), 2:03,41
7. Rudi RESCH (ITA), 1:01,81(10), 1:01,78(6), 2:03,59
8. Gerald KAMMERLANDER (AUT), 1:01,66(7), 1:02,16(9), 2:03,82
9. Michael SCHEIKL (AUT), 1:01,72(9), 1:02,21(10), 2:03,93
10. Kaj JOHNSON (CAN), 1:02,19(12), 1:01,80(7), 2:03,99
World Cup Standings (2/6):
Women:
1. Ekatharina LAVRENTJEVA (RUS) 185 points
1. Melanie BATKOWSKI (AUT) 185
3. Renate GIETL (ITA) 140
4. Marlies WAGNER (AUT) 115
4. Evelyn LANTHALER (ITA) 115
6. Olga SIDOROVA (RUS) 96
7. Nina BUCINEL (SLO) 78
7. Veronika NACHMANN (GER) 78
9. Tina UNTERBERGER (AUT) 68
10. Regina GILVANOVA (RUS) 50
Men:
1. Thomas SCHOPF (AUT) 200 points
2. Patrick PIGNETER (ITA) 170
3. Gernot SCHWAB (AUT) 130
4. Thomas KAMMERLANDER (AUT) 125
5. Anton BLASBICHLER (ITA) 115
6. Stefan GRUBER (ITA) 100
7. Rudi RESCH (ITA) 88
8. Michael SCHEIKL (AUT) 78
9. Gerald KAMMERLANDER (AUT) 76
10. Ziga PAGON (SLO) 74
11. Kaj JOHNSON (CAN) 72
12. Florian CLARA (ITA) 64
13. Jury TALYKH (RUS) 57
14. Damian WANICZEK (POL) 55
Chris Karl
FIL Media Service
Saturday, December 19th, 2009
17th-20th December 2009
Novouralsk/Yekaterinburg (RUS) II
Thomas Schopf and Melanie Batkowski win for Austria
With a spectacular second run rookie Thomas Schopf (AUT) shot himself from the third intermediate rank to the second win within 24 hours. "Before I went into the second run, I told myself: Thomas, give it all, you can do it! I knew that I could do better than in the first run, as I have had some mistakes here and there, but on this track nobody made it all the way down without mistakes." Runner up – again – was Patrick Pigneter (ITA) who is actually happy about the new challenger: "Recently I have had some motivational problems. I have won the overall World Cup four consecutive times and I was somehow missing the last bit of motivation to push myself. Now there is a new challenge and I am looking forward to the season." Lucky third was Thomas Kammerlander (AUT), who achieved his second podium finish in his career. Gernot Schwab (AUT) as Anton Blasbichler (ITA) had been ranked before him after the first run, but had problems in their second runs. "I am happy about the result", said Kammerlander, "last year I did not even finish within the top ten. This is a really difficult track here."
With "two fairly good runs" Melanie Batkowski upset her competitors and fulfilled yesterday's prophecy that she would do a little bit better today than yesterday. "Both runs were not perfect, but I just focussed on myself and saw to hit the braking points at the best moment." Her challengers had to submit to bigger mistakes, Ekatharina Lavrentjeva (RUS) had lost the race in the first run already: "I almost crashed in the first run, so I knew that I could not win any more. My goal was to move from the third place to the second and I am happy that I succeeded." Less happy was Renate Gietl (ITA) with her fifth consecutive third place: "I wanted to move up one rank, but I failed. Melanie and Katharina were too strong today."
Tomorrow, Sunday, the double seater´s event will be held. After that the aqotec World Cup will be continued in Umhausen (AUT) Jan 8-10 with the 100th World Cup race in the World Cup history.
Final Results Women (11):
1. Melanie BATKOWSKI (AUT), 1:02,34(1), 1:02,35(1), 2:04,69
2. Ekatharina LAVRENTJEVA (RUS), 1:03,16(3), 1:02,39(2), 2:05,55
3. Renate GIETL (ITA), 1:03,02(2), 1:03,16(3), 2:06,18
4. Evelyn LANTHALER (ITA), 1:03,83(5), 1:03,41(4), 2:07,24
5. Marlies WAGNER (AUT), 1:03,29(4), 1:04,01(5), 2:07,30
6. Olga SIDOROVA (RUS), 1:04,16(6), 1:04,29(6), 2:08,45
7. Ludmilla ASTRAMOVISH (RUS), 2:08,81
8. Svetlana ZHARAVINA (RUS), 2:10,36
9. Veronika NACHMANN (GER), 2:11,14
10. Nina BUCINEL (SLO), 2:11,25
11. Tina UNTERBERGER (AUT), 2:16,09
Final Results Men (31):
1. Thomas SCHOPF (AUT), 1:00,81(3), 1:00,60(1), 2:01,41
2. Patrick PIGNETER (ITA), 1:00,76(1), 1:00,98(2), 2:01,74
3. Thomas KAMMERLANDER (AUT), 1:01,12(5), 1:01,12(3), 2:02,24
4. Gernot SCHWAB (AUT), 1:00,88(4), 1:01,46(4), 2:02,34
5. Anton BLASBICHLER (ITA), 1:00,80(2), 1:01,56(5), 2:02,36
6. Stefan GRUBER (ITA), 1:01,44(6), 1:01,97(8), 2:03,41
7. Rudi RESCH (ITA), 1:01,81(10), 1:01,78(6), 2:03,59
8. Gerald KAMMERLANDER (AUT), 1:01,66(7), 1:02,16(9), 2:03,82
9. Michael SCHEIKL (AUT), 1:01,72(9), 1:02,21(10), 2:03,93
10. Kaj JOHNSON (CAN), 1:02,19(12), 1:01,80(7), 2:03,99
World Cup Standings (2/6):
Women:
1. Ekatharina LAVRENTJEVA (RUS) 185 points
1. Melanie BATKOWSKI (AUT) 185
3. Renate GIETL (ITA) 140
4. Marlies WAGNER (AUT) 115
4. Evelyn LANTHALER (ITA) 115
6. Olga SIDOROVA (RUS) 96
7. Nina BUCINEL (SLO) 78
7. Veronika NACHMANN (GER) 78
9. Tina UNTERBERGER (AUT) 68
10. Regina GILVANOVA (RUS) 50
Men:
1. Thomas SCHOPF (AUT) 200 points
2. Patrick PIGNETER (ITA) 170
3. Gernot SCHWAB (AUT) 130
4. Thomas KAMMERLANDER (AUT) 125
5. Anton BLASBICHLER (ITA) 115
6. Stefan GRUBER (ITA) 100
7. Rudi RESCH (ITA) 88
8. Michael SCHEIKL (AUT) 78
9. Gerald KAMMERLANDER (AUT) 76
10. Ziga PAGON (SLO) 74
11. Kaj JOHNSON (CAN) 72
12. Florian CLARA (ITA) 64
13. Jury TALYKH (RUS) 57
14. Damian WANICZEK (POL) 55
Chris Karl
FIL Media Service
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