The fastest in the first race was the Austrian Niko Glairšers, who completed the track in 52,121 seconds, but all four Latvians were in the second tenth.
Aparjods lost 0.446 seconds and was 11th, followed by Gardener and Russian Repanov with a deficit of 0.451 seconds, but immediately behind them was Rozitis, who was 0.465 seconds behind. The 0.539 second deficit gave Bērziņš the 19th place.
The second place was taken by the Italian Dominik Fisnaller, who was 0.170 seconds behind the leader, but the third place owner Johannes Ludwig from Germany was 0.228 seconds behind.
Due to the warm weather, the quality of the ice in the second race dropped sharply, which allowed several athletes to improve their results. Bērziņš was fourth in the race and Aparjods was seventh, which allowed both Latvians to rise in the results table.
Ludwig was also third in the second race and was enough to win the sum, Glairscher lost 0.068 seconds in the second race, and another Austrian Wolfgang Kindl took the third place in 0.181 seconds, 18th after the first race and the best in the second. result.
Aparjods lost 0.391 seconds to Ludwig, but Bērziņš was 0.431 seconds behind. Rozitis was also 14th in the second race, lagging behind the winner by 0.621 seconds, but the Gardener showed the 22nd result and lost 0.709 seconds.
In the overall standings after six stages and two sprint races, the leader with 675 points is Ludwig, 551 points with Kindle, and the third with 430 points is Repilov. Aparjods with 382 points is fifth, Bērziņš has accumulated 304 points and is 11th, but Dārznieks and Rozītis have 19th and 21st places, respectively.
Riks Kristers Rozītis and Artūrs Dārznieks took part in the Nations Cup on Friday, but Gints Bērziņš and Kristers Aparjods had already secured a place in the main competition.
In the third stage, Aparjods won the first victory in the history of Latvia in the men’s singles competition, and this season he has two fifth places and one 23rd position. In the fifth stage, he took eighth place.
Latvia’s leading sledge rider Aparjodas ended the previous season due to an injury already in December, before winning the third place in Altenberg. The gardener was 14th overall, but Rozitis and Bērziņš took 16th and 17th place, respectively.
Women will compete on Sunday and the team relay will take place.
166 athletes from 27 countries have applied for the sixth stage of the World Cup.
A week later, the sleigh athletes will gather in Sigulda. In the middle of the month, 15./16. January will be the eighth stage in Oberhof, Germany, and 22/23. The World Cup final and the European Championships will take place on January 1 in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
The culmination of the season will be from February 4 to 10, when the Olympic medals will be fought on the Yangtze River in Beijing.
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