Lukas Runggaldier 2 in Coc of Hoeydalsmo, success for Truls Johansen

Parallel to the World Cup in Lahti, it opened the weekend the Continental Cup Nordic Combined in that Hoeydalsmo. The first competition was hard fought, settled in the sprint for Truls Johansen Soenstehagen Lukas Runggaldier.

Saturday 7 January 2017 5 minutes reading time

This context of the bid is one of the most favorable to those Combiners unbalanced in favor of the bottom part, so the Italian team as a whole: the small trampoline (point K set at 85 m to 94 m HS) gave birth detachments tight to after the jump segment won by Martin Fritz. The strong performance of 84.5 meters by Runggaldier, in the race to him less congenial, allowed him to leave with a lead of 58 '' by Austrian and 10 '' by the Norwegian winner, in a train made up among other Lukas Greiderer. As expected, the Gardena has had it easy in When returning the head of the race and fight for victory in a thrilling sprint disputed by 4 athletes until now mentioned: thus was won by Johansen, in front of Runggaldier and Greiderer, closed slightly delayed the athlete with the bib number 1 Fritz. This prestigious placement for twenty-nine bodes well for the rest of the season, when so far had toiled exceedingly, especially on the jump. In addition there is optimism in earning an extra bib for the next period of the maximum circuit, crucial in this regard will be the decisine to leave it in the Continental Cup in the next stages, jumping at least one round of the World Cup between that of the Val house di Fiemme, and to Chaux-Neuve, contexts in their own way favorable to Lukas. A great protagonist of past vintages of the World Cup as Jan Schmid was the game in this competition: was the author of an exceptional jump, landing 2.5 meters beyond the HS, but sin for the fall that has relegated the 30 ^ provisional square. The 6th step has on the narrow skis allowed to complete a convincing comeback, finished at 48 '' from the winner countryman in 8th place finish. very positive day for the color blue: in addition to the best career result for Samuel Costa in Lahti and the podium for Lukas Runggaldier, all athletes engaged in Norway have entered into the points. Manuel Maierhofer finished 9th, Armin Bauer 16 Â° and 23 Â° Mattia Runggaldier. common leitmotif has been the excellent pace in the second segment of the race, where they all got a performance among the 10 best cadet circuit (leader in this ranking was precisely Bauer). The overall ranking of the Continental Cup at the top sees the Japanese Go Yamamoto with 260 points (today engaged in the maximum circuit), followed by the Teutonic Tobias Simon (190, also in Lahti) and the Austrian Florian Dagn (169). Tomorrow will be replicated on the same trampoline and on the same track 2 km to be repeated 5 times to Hoeydalsmo, will begin at 10.00 with jumping segment, followed by the cross-country skiing competition. COC HOEYDALSMO I - HS 94/10 KM 1. JOHANSEN Truls Soenstehagen (NOR) 25'02''5 2. RUNGGALDIER Lukas (ITA) in 1''0 3. Greiderer Lukas (AUT) in 2''8 4. FRITZ Martin (AUT) in 5''1 5. Tomaz Druml (AUT) in 9''2 6. SOETVIK Sindre Ure (NOR) to 36''1 Click here for the full results.

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