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This afternoon in Schonach was played the second segment of the race of the penultimate race of the Nordic Combined season. The conditions at the limit of snow, combined with a run of just 1450 meters, have made very uncertain outcome, open to any surprises impronosticabili.
Saturday 18 March 2017 8 minutes reading time
In this context, to say the least dramatic won the day Eric Frenzel: the Saxon has thus reached the milestone of 40 successes in the World Cup, 43 all inclusive. It should be emphasized, however, as today's victory has been propitiated by a resounding ingenuity of the great rival Johannes Rydzek.
As expected, the results emerged from the race, held on the trampoline, in the first round has come to form a large leading group, had as many as 15 units with each passing kilometer. Initially the pace was lethargic, made mostly by the youngest of the brothers Watabe: Yoshito.
At the end of the second of seven laps the Japanese brothers are given the change as a pioneer, then Akito has increased the intensity put into play, preventing linger longer pursuers to nurture ambitions to be top ten.
With the passage of kilometers have emerged even the Austrians leading the peloton: Mario Seidl and Wilhelm Denifl pulled for some time until the older of the two has gained a few meters at a descent. Aided by a sudden slowdown in the squad, Tyrolean concluded the penultimate lap with 8 '' margin, nursing ambitions for success.
In the last step on the hardest climb of the circuit he has taken over the operations Frenzel: Rydzek only managed to resist him, being the shadow of the Saxon as throughout the competition. This sudden change of pace has wiped out the margin of the Austrian tread, leaving open the struggle to 3 until the last corner before the final straight.
The role of Denifl was decisive: in fact, the Bavarian has found the road blocked for a while, seeing delay the start of the sprint. In highlight Rydzek he crashed on Frenzel, falling into ruin and seeing fade in a few moments the chances of crystal ball victory.
So Frenzel could cross the finish line without further complications, among other very adept at not end up in the ground after contact with younger teammate. Behind the winner came in the Rot-Weiß-Rot veteran who made the Saxon game: Rydzek (3rd) it has so far lost 40 points counting towards the overall ranking of the main circuit, seeing himself now trailing by 54 lengths by the holder of this trophy.
Then Frenzel just get 4th in the competition tomorrow to graduate winner of the World Cup, regardless of Oberstdorf athlete placement. Both Combiners in question have written history today: in fact reached the 17th podium of the season in the maximum circuit, all-time record in the Nordic combined.
Fourth place for Akito Watabe in the final has got the better of Jan Schmid: the Japanese is so managed to reopen the discussion for the third position in the general, because the one that precedes it, that Fabian Riessle today struggled and finished 27th .
Then we find Mario Seidl (6th) and Adam Cieslar (7th): Polish brought again his nation in the top 10 after more than 25 years, the last time he managed Stanislav Ustupski us to Breitenwang on 11 January 1992.
They closed the top 10 Eero Hirvonen (8th), Tim Hug (9th) and Bernhard Gruber (10 °): the youngest and the oldest of these have become protagonists of a substantial comeback (respectively 13:18 retrieved positions ), while the Swiss obtained the best result of the season in a race held in Europe.
The best distance runner of the day was Alessandro Pittin, who left for 41 ° and crossed the line for 15 minutes, then with a +26 differential positions recovered. So it appears the injury exceeded the backs suffered in week in Trondheim, where he fell into ruin in the bottom segment.
The other blue busy on 'snow' of the black forest has spoken about his limitations: Samuel Costa was placed 25th, able to stay together with Magnus Krog (26 °) for the whole test cross.
In summary, the general classification of the World Cup sees more and more leaders Frenzel (1634), followed by Rydzek (1580) and the tandem made up Riessle (1053) and Watabe (1026).
Tomorrow will be held the last race of the season: we will start at 12.15 with ski jumping (if Eolo permits, otherwise it will use the PCR on Friday), at 16.15 to continue with the trial on the narrow skis.
Schonach I - HS 106/10 KM
1. FRENZEL Eric (GER) 28'14''0 2. Wilhelm Denifl (AUT) in 3''4 3. RYDZEK Johannes (GER) in 7''1 4. Akito Watabe (JPN) in 12''6 5 . SCHMID Jan (NOR) to 14''8 6. SEIDL Mario (AUT) to 17''3 7. Cieślar Adam (POL) to 18''7 8. HIRVONEN Eero (FIN) to 23''7 9. HUG Tim (SUI) 26''4 10. Bernhard Gruber (AUT) to 28''3
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