Nordic Combined - World junior 2017
FIS Nordic Combined
The most anticipated guy Nordic combined is finally able to put the paw in the last competition at its disposal: Vinzenz Geiger made his gundersen on the 5 Km scheduled in the junior World Championships in Park City. Therefore, it reached the great goal of the evening before the conquest of the nominal bib for the World Cup.
Sunday 5 February 2017 5 minutes reading time
The situation for the athlete to Oberstdorf you are putting the best since jumping segment, where it was the best thanks to a performance by 92 m, with medium wind meters behind when rivals have found no or front. So it started with 4 '' Yuto Nakamura, 11 '' Christian Deuschl, more detached the most quoted Laurent Mühlethaler to 22 '' and Arttu Maekiaho to 47 ''.
In the test of cross-country skiing, Geiger continued its dominance, administering to best advantage on distance runners more formidable with the fourth fastest time on the narrow skis. The conduct in solitude race gave him the first career title at junior level, the third medal of the last couple of years, after the two silvers Rasnov 2016.
Silver champion for the winner of the 4-day competition does, Maekiaho: the best time in the fund allowed him to recover seven places and confirmed the athlete better shape this event standings.
Mühlethaler also won the par bib for maximum circuit until the next edition of the Junior World Cup, thanks to the bronze medal today: the limited mileage said good to him, so much so that he made the sixth fastest time of the second segment race.
Fourth and fifth place for Nakamura and Deuschl, parties just behind the Bavarian, but unable to play for the podium. Partial disappointment for Ondrej Pažout finally 6th, which it was thought that he could fight for the top of the race, but ultimately detached widely, but partial satisfaction can be to being the first athlete at the finish line is not the last vintage of juniors.
They closed the top 10 three more good jumpers - Hisaki Nagamine, Ben Loomis and Matevz Malovrh respectively in 7th, 9th and 10th place - and another good cross-country skier what the Norwegian Lars Ivar Skaarset, the best Scandinavian result of these days.
The other medalists of the first gundersen, Martin Hahn Vermeulen and Mika, have struggled the most, especially the fact that there were available to half the mileage for their powerful comeback. They concluded 21 ° and 25 °, but their task had already done very well.
The best Italian at the finish line was again Aaron Kostner (12th), again at home in the competition on the 5 Km, like last year in that Rasnov. The Trentino Luca Bezzi Gianmoena and Julius were placed, respectively, 34 ° and 40 °, while the other South Tyrolean, Martin Taschler, finished in 48th and last place.
the Nordic Combined competitions in this review juvenile rainbow ended: summing up, the nations that have performed best were Finland and Austria (both with a gold and a silver), in front of the Teutonic (a gold and one bronze), France (one silver and one bronze) and the Czech Republic (one bronze).
WORLD JUNIOR HS 100/5 KM
1. GEIGER Vinzenz (GER) 2. 12'14''9 MAEKIAHO Arttu (FIN) to 22''6 3. Mühlethaler Laurent (FRA) 23''9 4. Yuto NAKAMURA (JPN) in 42''8 5 . Deuschl Christian (AUT) to 46''1 6. Pažout Ondrej (CZE) in 48''6 7. Nagamine Hisaki (JPN) in 1'01''8 8. SKAARSET Lars Ivar (NOR) at 1'04 ' '9 9. LOOMIS Ben (USA) to 1'22''3 10. Malovrh Matevz (SLO) to 1'24''1
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