Nordic Skiing4. NORDIC COMBINED TRIPLE
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The magic that is between the village of Seefeld and the champion Eric Frenzel is not over as might be expected from the results of the past few days and especially the jumps of the morning. When it comes to bringing home the Nordic Combined Triple, the Saxon is transformed into an unbeatable monster, also putting in place of comebacks that will remain indelible in the history.
Sunday 29 January 2017 9 minutes reading time
The holder of the crystal ball started with 20 '' behind the leader of the multi-stage test, Johannes Rydzek, and in the company of two masters of the house Bernhard Gruber and Mario Seidl, the first shot with two seconds ahead the Teutonic.
In the first round the formed trio held a pace similar to that of the Bavarian, keeping the gap unchanged. In the next, Frenzel has gradually increased the intensity put into play, managing to pull fellow adventure and gaining 6 '' on the race leader.
The third round was the most decisive of all: now face to face, the two German rivals have held constant the distance between them for the first 900 meters, while in the second part of the athlete Oberwiesenthal was reported in the wake of the breastplate yellow with apparent simplicity.
After rifiatato for a whole round, doing pull Rydzek, Frenzel took command of operations around two thirds of the race, increasing the pace forcefully. The last of the circuit difficult stretch, the Bavarian began to accuse the great intensity put into play by the Saxon and lose a few meters.
So, the competition is svoltata resoundingly in favor of Frenzel, who began the final round already by a margin of ten seconds. The walkway has worn between the Teutonic fans in celebration, flocked in Tyrol. Finally, the gap between the two rivals for the crystal ball was even 30 ''.
For the now stronger combined athlete of all time, and we do not want Hannu Manninen, we are at 38 successes in the World Cup, the seventh in the season. In addition she was the only one able to establish itself in the Triple, winning 4 of 4 editions go on stage in Seefeld.
For the second time on two occasions happened, Rydzek was unable to read the evolution of the competition after the jump in his favor. As in Lillehammer, he has staked everything on a tendering scheme to the bankruptcy order, or the groped a victory in solitude. The anger shown after the finish line can be referred only to itself, with the hope that the second occasion the lesson he learned.
the third step of the podium for the Austrian veteran Gruber: from the moment he lost contact with the winner, has set the race at his own pace, giving himself regular changes with Seidl. The great advantage gained back after back to Costa has allowed him to play in the sprint the first podium of the season with the youngest teammate.
Seidl, meanwhile, equaled the best result ever achieved in late November in the opening of Ruka. For both Rot-Weiß-Rot athletes was proof of great strength, almost unexpected, given the non-exceptional forms of the moment.
Fifth place for Gardena Samuel Costa: set the race in a very intelligent way, began with a conservative pace, trying to administer the benefit of 51 '' who had to start the sixth, ie Fabian Riessle.
At the time of reunion with the athlete of Baden-Wuerttemberg, the last round, the blue was still possess great clarity to beat the last hundred meters, despite the 15 km routes. Samuel has achieved the best result ever for an Italian in the event born in 2014, beating the 7th place of Alessandro Pittin of the first edition.
Weekend in chiaroscuro for Riessle, capable of showing major progress in jumping segment, but at the same time a form of skiing in falling, demonstrating it is the fact that he did not win any of the three sprints played in the last three days.
They closed the top 10 athletes are part of the micro group from which we expected a good comeback, composed of Magnus Krog (7th), Ilkka Herola (8th) and Bjoern Kircheisen (10th), authors of the best three times, respectively on narrow skis. Between the Finnish and German are the Japanese Akito Watabe is inserted, which has lost a couple of positions to the start.
Best career result for Terence Weber finally eleventh. The big difference that expressed in the two jumps of the morning was combined with exceptional tenacity in trying to lose the least possible positions. The result today could enable him to finish the season in the maximum circuit, despite the nominal lose breastplate, and maybe snatch a summons for the world championship event.
The nation that has had more athletes in the points, which had qualified for today, it was Austria, with 8 Combiners: besides the already mentioned Gruber and Seidl, Franz-Josef Rehrl he finished 13th, David Pommer 16 °, Philipp Orter 17th, Paul Gerstgraser 22 °, 23 ° Klapfer Lukas and Martin Fritz 28 °.
The general classification of the World Cup sees the Frenzel controsorpasso against Rydzek, by virtue of the scores assigned doubled today. The Saxon raise it to 1224 points, 34 more than Bavarian. Following positions are frozen for some time, with Riessle (839) third, ahead of Watabe (588) and Kircheisen (540).
Now the circuit of the Nordic combined moves in the Far East, with a double stage between PyeongChang (pre-Olympic) and Sapporo. Friday, February 3 is the PCR program for Sunday's fifth race, the Korean trampoline HS 140. Saturday there will be a team trials with 4 runners who will make a leap and 5 km cross-country.
SEEFELD III - 2 x HS 109/15 KM
1. FRENZEL Eric (GER) 2. 37'32''2 RYDZEK Johannes (GER) 30''5 3. Bernhard Gruber (AUT) 1'18''6 4. SEIDL Mario (AUT) 1'19''1 5. COSTA Samuel (ITA) 2'18''2 6. RIESSLE Fabian (GER) 2'19''0 7. Magnus Krog (NOR) 2'42''0 8. HEROLA Ilkka (FIN) 2'42 ' '3 9. Akito Watabe (JPN) 2'42''6 10. Bjoern Kircheisen (GER) 2'55''8
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