Germany already overall champion in the Team Relay Event

Altenberg (pps) Germany has already secured the overall title in the Team Relay Event. At the fifth of the altogether six stops of the Viessmann Team Relay World Cup presented by Money Service Group the German quartet with Tatjana Huefner, Felix Loch and Tobias Wendl-Tobias Arlt celebrated their fifth success. With the ideal number of 500 points they have thus already clinched the overall victory. With a gap of 145 points on second-placed Italy (355) no other team can catch up with Germany in the final in Sigulda, Latvia, on February 20, 2011. Team Italy with Sandra Gasparini, David Mair and Christian Oberstolz-Patrick Gruber achieved a fourth place at the Viessmann Team Relay World Cup presented by Money Service Group in Altenberg. The Russian quartet (Tatjana Ivanova, Albert Demchenko, Vladislav Yuzhakov-Vladimir Makhnutin) and Team Austria (Nina Reithmayer, Daniel Pfister and Peter Penz-Georg Fischler) secured the second and third place respectively in Altenberg.