Russian athletes dominate qualification runs at Moscow

Moscow (PMA) – Ekaterina Lavrentyeva and Juri Talikh from Russia set the fastest times at the qualification for the singles event at the fourth World Cup on Natural Track at Moscow. The two Russians make no mistakes and are leading at the spectacular track in the middle of the metropolis.

Talikh is fastest at the men’s qualification. He leads ahead of two Russian athletes. Gregori Bukin finishes second, doubles-specialist Aleksandr Egorov finishes third. Alex Gruber from Italy takes the fourth place, with a gap of 47 hundredths. Austrian Bernd Neurauter ends up on fifth place. World Cup leader Patrick Pigneter scores the seventh-best time of the day. The leaders can write history, no Russian athlete has won a men’s World Cup race on natural track so far.

At the women’s event last year’s Overall World Cup Ekaterina Lavrentyeva scores the fastest time. Second place went to Italy and Greta Pinggera. She finished ahead of Austrian Tina Unterberger. Overall World Cup leader Evelin Lanthaler is on fourth place. Fifth place is taken by Russian Ludmila Astramovich. Lavrentyeva leads with an advantage of 45 hundredths, the gap between second and fifth place is only 10 hundredths.