Ivanova won the first victory of the season, Katnikova won the debut KM medal

The most titled Russian luge Tatyana Ivanova was rehabilitated for an unsuccessful performance at the opening stage of the World Cup in the Austrian Igls, where she remained only 20th.

On the track in Altenberg, Germany, the athlete won her first victory in the 2020/21 season.

Moreover, Ivanova managed to get ahead of the four-time Olympic champion Natalie Geisenberger, who is perfectly familiar with all the features of this gutter.

The Russian woman won the first race (her time was 52.439 seconds), and in the second she was able to prevent her rivals from getting close.

Ivanova's result on the sum of two attempts - 1 min.

45.170 sec.

Geisenberger lost 0.113 to her, while compatriot Ekaterina Katnikova lost 0.200.

By the way, Katnikova for the first time in her career rose to the podium at the World Cup.

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In the final standings of the previous draw, KM Ivanova took second place, leaving Julia Taubitz ahead.

This winter she will have the opportunity to compete again for the Big Crystal Globe.

“Today I am very happy, our girls are the best in the world.

Finally, we managed to get back to the leaders after not the most successful start in Igls, but I never make hasty conclusions after the first starts, and rightly so, "Natalia Garth, President of the Russian Luge Federation, quotes TASS.

But Victoria Demchenko, who took third place in the 2019/20 World Cup total, narrowly escaped serious injuries in Altenberg.

During the first run, she fell off the sled and hit her head on the side of the chute.

Demchenko did not make the second attempt.

However, her father and coach Albert Demchenko assured that everything was in order with the athlete.

And according to the coach of the Russian national team Sergey Chudinov, Victoria had a headache and numb fingers on her hand due to a bruised elbow.

He also admitted that it was impossible to predict two medals for Russian sleds at once.

“Katnikova is a great fellow, she confirms that her victories at the World Championship in Sochi were not accidental.

And Tanya Ivanova, who made mistakes a week ago in Igls due to an excessive desire to win, today spoke beyond praise, "Chudinov summed up.

The Russians took the entire podium in ski acrobatics

Russian athletes performed no less successfully at the Freestyle World Cup in the Finnish Hand.

In the competitions of ski acrobats for men, representatives of Russia made up the top three.

The first and third places were taken by the brothers Maxim and Ilya Burov.

Their results in the final are 126.24 and 118.10 points, respectively.

Pavel Krotov (120.36) is located between the partners in the national team.

It should be noted that one of the strongest teams in the world - the Chinese one - could not come to Finland.

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Anastasia Prytkova (71.53) took bronze in the women's stage.

The Russian woman lost only to Australian Laura Peel (83.87) and German Emma Weiss (80.95).

“For the first time in the history of Russian freestyle, our athletes occupy the entire pedestal.

This is a powerful start to the season.

Stanislav Nikitin failed to make it to the final.

Nevertheless, it is worth noting the courage and high motivation of the athlete.

Having received a slight injury on the training day, he nevertheless went to the start, ”head coach of the national team Mikhail Nosov told the website of the Russian Freestyle Federation (FFR).

And as the senior coach of the acrobatics team, Alexander Pongilsky, noted, so far the athletes are finalizing their elements, and therefore they presented relatively simple programs.

Anastasia Smirnova brought one more award to the freestylers' piggy bank.

She climbed to third position in the mogul competition (74.27).

The victory in this discipline was celebrated by the Frenchwoman Perrin Laffont (79.18), the second was the American Jaylene Kauf (75.74).

This winter, freestyle skiing masters can focus their energies on competing in the World Cup.

On Friday, December 4, the International Ski Federation (FIS) announced the decision to cancel the Freestyle and Snowboard World Championships, which was to be held in China on February 18-28, 2021.

During these competitions, it was planned to test facilities prepared for the 2022 Olympic Games.

According to a statement by FIS President Gianfranco Casper, travel restrictions due to the second wave of COVID-19 have made it nearly impossible to host international competitions.

The return of jumpers after COVID-19 and Sergeeva's historic gold in monobob

The Russian national ski jumping team returned after missing the World Cup stage in Ruka.

At the end of November, the entire team had to quarantine due to Mikhail Maksimochkin's positive coronavirus test.

In self-isolation, the athletes prepared intensively for the home stage of the WC in Nizhny Tagil.

To a certain extent, this gave a result: Evgeny Klimov, after the 28th position in qualification, climbed to seventh place in the main session of jumping from the K-125 big springboard.

Moreover, after the first jump on 132 m, he was fifth, claiming to be "in the prizes".

Klimov performed the second attempt worse.

His final result is 230.5 points.

The medals were taken by the Norwegian Halvor Egner Granerud (270.0), the Austrian Daniel Huber (255.7) and another representative of Norway, Robert Johansson (254.1).

Bobsledder Nadezhda Sergeeva won the first ever stage of the World Series in monobob (single bobsled competitions in 2018 were included in the program of the 2022 Games).

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The result of the Russian woman on the sum of two attempts in the German Winterberg - 2 minutes 0.27 seconds.

She became the best in both races - both on acceleration (5.99 each) and at the finish (1.00.21 + 1.00.06).

Sergeeva's company on the podium was made up of Swiss Martina Fontaniv and Austrian Katrin Beyerl.

Russian Anastasia Makarova was ranked sixth.