Johannes Rydzek wins Lahti's Gundersen

Second win of the season and sixteenth in career, eight of them in Finland, for Johannes Rydzek who is imposed in the Gundersen of Lahti.

Sunday 4 March 2018 3 minutes reading time

The jump segment was won by the World Cup leader, the Japanese Akito Watabe, who started for the 10 km background with 20 seconds ahead of the Norwegian JÃ¸rgen Graabak and the Austrian Wilhelm Denifl, Rydzek started in seventh position at 28 seconds. At mid-race Watabe was resumed and did not keep the pace of the best, the darling of home Eero Hirvonen has tried to give Finland a triumph that is missing from March 6, 2010, when Hannu Manninen, even today in the race (thirty-third), won just in Lahti, but in the final he was detached from Rydzek and in the end it was a double win with Vinzenz Geiger who took his third podium in the Cup, third Graabak, also finished in front of Hirvonen. Fifth is finished Watabe, sixth the Norwegian Espen Andersen, seventh Frenchman FranÃ§ois Braud, eighth, ninth and tenth three Austrians, the emerging Lukas Greiderer, Denifl and the veteran Bernhard Gruber, author of the second half in the fund and up ten positions, better than him on the narrow skis only the Finnish Ilkka Herola, up from the twenty-sixth to the twelfth position, partial third for the German Eric Frenzel, fifteenth and in comeback from the twenty-second position he had after the jump with over a minute and a half delay. Disastrous Alessandro Pittin, forty-sixth in the jump, the blue started with almost 4 minutes of detachment from the summit and did not pull too much in the bottom by reassembling seven positions. Saturday we will compete in Holmenkollen.

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