Nordic Combined: Gyda Westvold Hansen already dominates in the Grand Prix, 8th place for Sieff

In Oberstdorf the second stage of the summer circuit, with the Norwegian unrivaled. Among the men Rehrl rejoices, with many big names in the race and Samuel Costa best blue in 16th position.

Thursday 1 September 2022 3 minutes reading time

An immediately high level Nordic combined Summer Grand Prix, for the Oberstdorf stage which served to many athletes to test themselves a few months after the start of the World Cup. In Germany, for example, the queen of the discipline was present who responds to the name of Gyda Westvold Hansen: the young Norwegian dominated the race which ended on Wednesday evening, making the void with a jump from 105 meters to conclude with almost a minute of margin on the first pursuer was the roller ski test, which saw the Slovenian Ema Volavsek place second ahead of the German Nathalie Armbruster. Eighth place for the reference point of the blue movement, Annika Sieff, also preceded by the very young (class 2007) Finnish Korhonen, great fourth, by Lisa Hirner 5th, by the second German Nowak, sixth, and by the other Austrian Slamik, seventh . At home Italy, 11th place for Veronica Gianmoena and 12th for Daniela Dejori. The men's race also offered an important starter cast: Franz-Josef Rehrl clearly imposed himself, in great condition in this start of the season, able to trim 32 seconds, all on roller skis, to Ryota Yamamoto who had paired him in the test jump. A comeback from third place for Eero Hirvonen, with Julian Schmid fourth and the second Finn, Ilkka Herola, fifth ahead of names like Eric Frenzel and Johannes Lamparter. The blues: Samuel Costa 16th, Raffaele Buzzi 18th, Domenico Mariotti 38th while Iacopo Bortolas did not finish. In this short but very intense Summer Grand Prix in terms of calendar, on Friday we return immediately to compete with the PCR which opens the third stage of Tschagguns, in Austria.

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