Bērziņa, who went sixth in the first race, did well, only got her feet on the bottom in the bottom, but did not lose much time with it, taking the 18th place after the first race and the leader Madeleine Egle from Austria, who achieved the best result in the penultimate race, losing 0.855 seconds.
Elīna Ieva Vītola with the start number 15 did poorly in the second part of the race after the ninth turn, ranking 27th in the competition of 28 athletes and Egle lost 1,527 seconds.
Pararjode, who started as 23 on the track, allowed a mistake and a slip in the track, finishing in ninth place 0.493 seconds behind Austria.
As the last rider, Tīruma made a good trip, taking the seventh place and lagging behind Egle by 0.386 seconds, but from the first three, which was completed by the German Anna Bereitere – by 0.190 seconds.
The second after the first trip was Bereitere’s compatriot Jūlija Taubica, who lost 0.143 seconds to Egle.
Vītola spent the second trip much better, taking the tenth place and climbing to the 23rd place in the sum of two trips. She gave in to 2,162 seconds for Egle, who celebrated her second victory this season.
Bērziņa also drove well, reaching the second best time in the race after Vītola and taking the 19th place in the race and the 18th place in the sum of two races after the start of all athletes, the winner losing 1,768 seconds.
Aparjode performed the second race perfectly, reaching the best time in the race at that time, but in the end it turned out to be the sixth fastest time in the race, which took the seventh place in the sum of two races 0.984 seconds behind Egle.
The entrance to the first turn was a bit inaccurate for Tīruma, taking the eighth place in the race and the sixth place in the race, with Egle losing 0.981 seconds.
Egle, who achieved the best time in both races, was 0.229 seconds ahead of Taubica, who took the second place in the races, and 0.585 seconds ahead of the third Bereiter.
Another German, Natalia Geizenbergere, finished fourth, and Emily Swinie, an American, finished second with 0.148 seconds.
The leader of the overall rating after four stages with 409 points is Jūlija Taubica from Germany. Her compatriot Anna Bereitere has accumulated 345 points, but Egle is third with 337 points, which is 46 points ahead of Aparjodi. Field with 262 points shares sixth place with Geizenberger. Bērziņa with 87 points is in the 19th position, Vītola takes the 26th place with 54 points in three stages, and Ulla Zirne is in the 42nd place with 17 points in one stage. Points are for 56 sleigh riders.
On Friday, the participation in the World Cup was won by Vītola, who took the third place, and Bērziņa, who took the 13th place.
Ulla Zirne, who was also scheduled to start in the Nations Cup, fell during the training session, injured her shoulder and will go home on Sunday to check the severity of the injury. He will probably not go to the track in Sigulda Nations Cup.
In the first stage in China, Aparjode won 13th place, but in Sochi, second and third place, respectively, and was in the fourth Sprint Cup. The field has so far taken seventh, fourth and sixth place, as well as seventh in sprinting. Bērziņa is ranked 18th, 19th and 22nd, but Vītols has finished 23rd twice in the first two stages.
The winners in the stages so far have been won by the Austrian Madeleine Egle, Bereitere and twice, including the Sprint Cup, Taubica.
In the previous season, Tīrums was sixth, Aparjode – ninth, Vītola 22nd, and Bērziņa – 34. Vītola was happy with the victory in the last competition of the season in St. Moritz.
It has already been reported that Mārtiņš Bots / Roberts Plūme won the third place in the doubles competition on Saturday, climbing the podium of the World Cup for the first time this season, but the second Latvian duo Juris and Andris Šici took the fifth place.
There will be a competition for men on Sunday, as well as a team relay.
Next, the sleigh riders will be waiting for the race on the 18th of December on the Eggs track in 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, there will be an eighth stage in Oberhof, Germany, and on January 22/23, the World Cup season will end on the St. Moritz track in Switzerland, while also competing in the European Championships.
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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