Nordic SkiingNordic Combined - World junior
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Italian night in the Junior World Championships in Park City was staged the first Nordic combined competition, the one with the bottom segment on the distance of 10 km.
Wednesday 1 February 2017 4 minutes reading time
The competition has certified viepiù the rebirth of the Finnish movement, because now is the triumph of Arttu Mäkihao. The nineteen Vuokatti has realized the ninth score on the trampoline, then he has become the protagonist of a vigorous test on the narrow skis that allowed him to win the gold medal in fluency.
To find a Finnish champion at junior level you have to go back a decade and the title of Anssi Koivuranta achieved in 2007.
Behind Mäkihaho two boys of posts protagonists of remarkable comebacks. In particular it has shone Mika Vermeulen, from Ramsau in fury. The Austrian, born in 1999 and then two years younger than many opponents, was the protagonist of the twenty-ninth performance in the jump, but climbed to the silver medal thanks to a pressing recovery in the fund, where he set the fastest time to the day.
Among the many opponents collected along the way, the one who held up better in the wake of the Styrian unleashed was the German Martin Hahn, sixteenth on the trampoline. The nineteen year old Klingenthal has in turn made the difference on the track and has harpooned the bronze medal.
So the race where he definitely counted more than the bottom to jump. Witness the fact that on the podium have risen three of the four best times on the narrow skis. So Mäkihao, Vermeulen and Hahn have earned a nominal bib in the World Cup until the next edition of the Junior World Cup.
They remained off the podium already seen men in the maximum circuit consistently. In particular the German Vinzenz Geiger, author of a sensational start to the winter, has not gone beyond the seventh, beaten by Czech Lukas Danek and Ondrej Pažout - respectively the fourth and sixth - as well as by compatriot Luis Lehnert, even born in 2000. About of this class, confirming his talent even the American Stephen Schumann, tenth.
Home Italy you can store a performance quite positive Aaron Kostner. The seventeen year old Gardena concluded 14th, realizing the twentieth score in the jumping and the tenth time in the fund. More detached the other blue. Mirco Sieff concluded 35 °, 41 ° and Luke Martin Taschler Gianmoena 45th.
Today rest, but tomorrow is the rolling program
WORLD JUNIOR HS100 / 10 KM 1. MAEKIAHO Arttu (FIN) 25: 54.5 2. Mika VERMEULEN (AUT) +21.6 3. HAHN Martin (GER) +25.6 4. DANEK Lukas (CZE) +30.5 5. LEHNERT Luis (GER) +35.8 6. Pažout Ondrej (CZE) +37.4 7. GEIGER Vinzenz (GER) +49.4 8. KORHONEN Atte (FIN) +51.8 9. RAINER Marc Luis (AUT) +53.7 10.SCHUMANN Stephen (USA) +55.0
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