Rozītis completed the track in 52,130 seconds, conceding 0.299 seconds for the winning Austrian Jonas Miller.
Aparjods, who won the previous two Nations Cup competitions, was in sixth place this time, losing 0.312 seconds to the Austrian athlete.
In the men’s competition, the second place in the men’s competition was taken by the Italian Leon Felderer, and the third place was won by the Russian athlete Pavel Repilov.
Ulla Zirne showed the best result in the women’s competition from Latvian athletes, who completed the track in 50,446 seconds and lost 0.565 seconds to the winning German Natalia Gaizenberger.
Sigita Bērziņa ranked one position lower in tenth place, conceding 0.632 seconds, but Elīna Ieva Vītola took 14th place, 0.77 seconds behind Gaizenberger.
The second place was won by the Russian athlete Ekaterina Katnikova, the best three was closed by the American Sammera Bričere.
It has already been reported that this time Zirne is fighting for a place in the main competition, who started last week without such an opportunity, but Vītola is the one who cannot qualify for the main competition by the decision of the coaches.
38 athletes competed in the men’s competition and 41 athletes in the women’s competition. 17 athletes qualified for the main competition.
Last week, Aparjods showed the fastest time in the Nations Cup, while Rozītis was in fifth place. Bērziņa, who took the 12th place, showed the best result in the women’s competition from Latvians.
The Nations Cup is a qualifying round for the World Cup, which will take place on the same track on Saturday and Sunday.
The stage will continue on December 11/12 in Altenberg, Germany, and a week later in Innsbruck, Austria.
Already in the first two days of 2022, the sixth stage will take place in Winterberg, Germany, and a week later the sleigh athletes will gather in Sigulda. In the middle of the month, on January 15/16, the eighth stage will take place in Oberhof, Germany, and on January 22/23, the World Cup final and the European Championships will take place on the St. Moritz track in 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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