World Cup Lasa: Patrick Pigneter celebrates his 29th World Cup victory

In his 29th World Cup victory, Patrick Pigneter set the best time in both runs, but both times he was only a few hundredths of a second faster than second-place finisher Thomas Schopf. Overall, the Pigneter from Völs was only 2.00,48 seconds ahead of his Austrian opponent in 0,08:XNUMX minutes.

Of this, 0,02 seconds were in the first run, while 0,06 seconds were in the second run. In the decision, Schopf was on the verge of ending Pigneter's dominance, but a mistake ultimately cost him the victory. For Pigneter it was the eighth World Cup victory in a row.

Blasbichler slips back to fifth place, Clara comes third

Hannes Clara took third place in the men's single-seater race. The Gadertaler was in sixth place after the first round, but improved to third overall in the second round with the second best time (+0,67). From there he displaced Toni Blasbichler. The veteran from Latzfons was on course for the podium at the halfway point, but had to settle for fifth place in the end.

Thomas Kammerlander from Austria pushed in between Clara and Blasbichler. In addition to Pigneter, Clara and Blasbichler, Florian Breitenberger, who came ninth, also made it into the top ten.

Lavrentjeva is in a league of her own In the women's race, Ekatharina Lavrentjeva won a World Cup race for the 41st time. She crossed the finish line in 2.02,17:2,33 minutes. With this amazing time, the Russian had a lead of 18 seconds over the soon to be XNUMX-year-old Greta Pinggera from Vinschger. The local hero set second time in both runs and climbed onto the podium for the first time in her World Cup career. Evelin Lanthaler from Passeier came third, while Sara Bachmann narrowly missed the podium in fourth place. This means that all three South Tyroleans achieved a top position at the start.

Florian Clara wins the Nations Cup - second place in the team competition

The Austrian-Italian duel continued in the Nations Cup and here too the hosts were just ahead. Florian Clara won ahead of the Austrians Patrick Salcher and Christoph Regensburger. The reigning world champion Gerald Kammerlander (also from Austria) had to settle for fourth place.

In the team competition, which is also new - this has previously only been held as part of the World and European Championships - Russia (Ekatharina Lavrentjeva, Stanislav Kovshik, Pavel Porshnev/Ivan Lazarev) won ahead of Italy (Greta Pinggera, Hannes Clara, Patrick Pigneter/Florian Clara) and Austria (Tina Unterberger, Thomas Schopf, Christian Schopf/Andreas Schopf).

Final result World Cup Lasa (December 30, 2012) Damen: 1. Ekatharina Lavrentjeva (RUS), 1:01,19(1), 1:00,98(1), 2:02,17 2. Greta Pinggera (ITA), 1:02,56(2), 1:01,94(2), 2:04,50 3. Evelin Lanthaler (ITA), 1:02,84(3), 1:02,04(3), 2:04,88 4. Sara Bachmann (ITA), 1:03,08(4), 1:02,26(4), 2:05,34 5. Liudmila Aksenenko (RUS), 1:03,32(5), 1:02,69(5), 2:06,01 6. Tina Unterberger (AUT), 1:03,45(6), 1:02,98(6), 2:06,43 7. Michaela Maurer (GER), 1:03,54(7), 1:03,63(7), 2:07,17 8. Christina Götschl (AUT), 1:04,20(8), 1:03,78(8), 2:07,98

Herren: 1. Patrick Pigneter (ITA), 1:00,09(1), 1:00,39(1), 2:00,48 2. Thomas Schopf (AUT), 1:00,11(2), 1:00,45(3), 2:00,56 3. Hannes Clara (ITA), 1:00,75(6), 1:00,40(2), 2:01,15 4. Thomas Kammerlander (AUT), 1:00,73(5), 1:00,83(4), 2:01,56 5. Anton Blasbichler (ITA), 1:00,69(3), 1:01,07(7), 2:01,76 6. Michael Scheikl (AUT), 1:00,99(7), 1:00,86(5), 2:01,85 7. Stanislav Kovshik (RUS), 1:00,72(4), 1:01,35(9), 2:02,07 8. Gernot Schwab (AUT), 1:01,05(8), 1:01,04(6), 2:02,09 9. Florian Breitenberger (ITA), 1:01,36(9), 1:01,18(8), 2:02,54 10. Georg Maurer (GER), 1:01,86(11), 1:01,74(10), 2:03,60

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World Cup Lasa: Patrick Pigneter celebrates his 29th World Cup victory

At the World Cup opener for natural track luge in Lasa, Patrick Pigneter in the men's single-seater started the season the same way he ended the old one: with a victory.

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