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For the second consecutive year the final race of the FIS Nordic Combined World Cup is won by Akito Watabe, now the author of a superlative performance. At the same time just like last winter the step pi & ugrave; the bottom of the podium is occupied by Alessandro Pittin.
Saturday 14 March 2015 6 minutes reading time
The Japanese, after the eleventh segment jump, & egrave; able to engage in a very short time the group of athletes ahead of him, equivalent to the pursuers of the leader Maxime Laheurte, then resumed in mid & agrave; competition.
The Japanese then raised the 'action going on the run than fellow adventurers. Only Johannes Rydzek resisted all''attacco dell''asiatico, but the German had to raise the white flag in the final tending to occupy the place of 'honor.
With this success, the second of the season and seventh of his career, Akito Watabe won second place in the overall World Cup closing in absolute top-three for the fourth consecutive winter without ever having put hands on the Crystal Ball (second in 2012 and in this winter, the third in 2013 and 2014). Rydzek instead has harpooned the step pi & ugrave; the bottom of the podium of the overall ranking bypassing Fabian Rie & szlig; the now eleventh and slipped to fourth place overall.
So Frenzel, now fourth on goal, won with 945 points against 777 Akito Watabe, the Ryzdek of 731, 724 Rie & szlig; and 684 of the Bernhard Gruber. The top three of the circuit of the Nordic combined are therefore the same as in 2013 - '' 14 (albeit in a different order Since & eacute; the Japanese closed behind the Bavarian).
Returning to today's race, the podium of the day & egrave; was completed by Alessandro Pittin, which had become the protagonist dell''ennesima great comeback in the bottom segment. The twenty-five of Cercivento finished third despite a poor performance in the jump, where he had accumulated 3''19 "delay from the summit, bypassing the road doing all opponents except Watabe and Rydzek. It is not about records Since & eacute; in November 2006, the German Sebastian Haseney sal & Igrave; podium in Kuusamo, starting with a delay of 4''29 ".
It closes with a twelfth place the wonderful career of Jason Lamy-Chappuis, which ends just 28 years his activities & agrave; racing with 29 victories (26 in the World Cup, second at the World Championships, 1 Olympic Games) and 63 podium finishes (59 in CDM + 4 championship) all-inclusive as well as three crystal balls absolute and various medals in the team event. Difficult to make a ranking of all-times, but certainly with the withdrawal of the French stops one of the pi & ugrave; great performers in the history of Nordic combined.
HOLMENKOLLEN - FINAL 2xHS134 / 15 KM1. Akito Watabe (JPN) 38''05 "12. RYDZEK Johannes (GER) 9" 03. Pittin Alessandro (ITA) 18 "64. FRENZEL Eric (GER) 22" 65. BRAUD Fran & ccedil; ois (FRA) 23 "96. Laheurte Maxime (FRA) 24" 87. BIELER Christoph (AUT) in 29 "28. GRUBER Bernhard (AUT) 33" 89. KATO Taihei (JPN) 38 "310. MOAN Magnus (NOR) to 39" 8
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The draft 2015 calendar - '' 16 expected to begin November 28 from Ruka, Finland. In summer you disputer & agrave; the Summer Grand Prix - with dates yet to be confirmed - that & ograve ;, unless changes to the rules, will not have & agrave; value for the World Ranking List and therefore will not have & agrave; the same value dell''analogo summer circuit of the jump. Also in the coming months will be discussed within the FIS any change of rules.
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