Akito Watabe back to win the second gundersen Sapporo, interrupting Filotto German successes

In the night was held in Sapporo last gundersen among Asian competitions maximum circuit. The news is that for the first time this season Germany does not harpoons the top step of the podium, interrupting Filotto consecutive wins at 18, as it was won by the athlete Akito Watabe home.

Saturday 11 February 2017 7 minutes reading time

After the jump segment, as twenty-four hours ago, he was leading Hisaki Nagamine. The young Japanese has unsheathed again a superlative performance, landing beyond the HS 138m, jumping from lower pole at the request of his coach. Detachment from opponents, however, was more tight than yesterday: only 4 '' kicked off Manuel FaiÃŸt, rose blows in recent weeks. At close distance are parties Haavard Klemetsen (16 ''), Akito Watabe (25 '') and Tim Hug (32 ''). The first round of the bottom segment has seen sailing in the pair head that had done better in the jump, but already in the middle of the second, the Swiss and the largest of Watabe brothers hung up the German, with the nineteen year old Japanese already disconnected. Formed the trio traveled together for the rest of the competition, with the way the situation to take shape only in the final. In fact, the Japanese increased frequencies entering the stadium, going to remove the red cross and the Teutonic. Akito Watabe has so his first win in his homeland, nearly two years after the last archived in Oslo in March 2015, bringing the counting of career successes to share 8. Runner-Tim Hug, went to crown the good results achieved in recent competitions. For the Swiss it is the second podium of his career, after the win in Chaikovskiy in 2014 in another context full of absences. Manuel FaiÃŸt was the first to raise the white flag in the final lap, finishing in 3rd place. So Germany has placed the 6th different athlete on the podium this season in absolute domination, despite not deployed in Sapporo three big Johannes Rydzek, Eric Frenzel and Fabian RieÃŸle. Again the author of an excellent Mikko Kokslien comeback, finally 4 Â°, and with the performance achieved in the land of the rising sun tries to advance his candidacy for convening the forthcoming World Cup. Fifth place for another Norwegian Haavard Klemetsen, the best result of the season, which turned preceded Lukas Klapfer 6th and 7th Takehiro Watanabe. Tanta Austria and Japan in the top 10, because we still find Wilhelm Denifl 8th, 9th and Hideaki Nagai Taihei Kato 10th. The winner of yesterday BjÃ¶rn Kircheisen could only finish 13th, having not found a brilliant jump and failing to keep abreast of Kokslien, the party with him. Excellent performance on narrow skis for Paul Gerstgraser 14th and Truls Johansen SÃ¸nstehagen 16th, having started respectively from 30th and 29th position. This competition has significantly shifted the balance of the World Ranking List to determine how many athletes each country can deploy in the last races of the season. They have borne the brunt of the blues and the Finns, who have lost a share apiece. In fact they entered who earns a bib for Russia, while have come out Armin Bauer, Arttu MÃ¤kiaho and Hannu Manninen among the best 55 of the WRL Hisaki Nagamine (today 23 Â°), Espen BjÃ¸rnstad and Viacheslav Barkov,. In the general classification there is no change given the absences, with Johannes Rydzek to 1390, Eric Frenzel in 1354 and Fabian RieÃŸle to 949. With today's successful Akito Watabe further reduces the gap by taking third place at 826 points, although it remains higher than 100 lengths. That today was the last competition before the World Championships, which will start in two weeks. So the next event is scheduled for Friday, February 24, when in Lahti will be played with the gundersen jump from normal hill. SAPPORO II - HS 137/10 KM1. Akito Watabe (JPN) in 25'55''92. TIM HUG (SUI) 4''03. FAISST Manuel (GER) 12''34. KOKSLIEN Mikko (NOR) to 48''55. KLEMETSEN Haavard (NOR) to 52''06. Klapfer Lukas (AUT) to 52''47. WATANABE Takehiro (JPN) in 52''68. Wilhelm Denifl (AUT) to 56''99. NAGAI Hideaki (JPN) in 57''710. Kato Taihei (JPN) in 1'01''9 Click here for the full results.

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