Nordic SkiingNordic Combined - Lillehammer
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Mikko Kokslien, enfant du pays in the sense pi & ugrave; of the word being born in Lillehammer, has set a record nell''ormai thirty-year history of the FIS Nordic Combined World Cup.
Sunday 7 December 2014 4 minutes reading time
The gundersen today followed a pattern very different than that mate disputed Since Saturday & eacute; with the passage of kilometers no athlete & egrave; managed to take over.
Athletes lingered after the jump so they had a chance & agrave; from referring on the head where, simultaneously, they managed to stay afloat men left in the top positions. At the command & egrave; thus gradually formed a group of a dozen units & agrave ;.
In the final Kokslien and Magnus Moan forced the 'pace, but the German Fabian Rie & szlig; has counterattacked failing to take even a few meters ahead. Kokslien for & ograve; on the final descent & egrave; back on the Teutonic and & egrave; imposed in the sprint setting a record.
In fact, the twenty-nine of Lillehammer you & egrave; imposed even though he was in 38th position after the jump. Never in the history of the maximum circuit an athlete was able to win a race from a position cos & Igrave; penalizing.
Rie & szlig; the second ended with the revived Jason Lamy-Chappuis third, managed to precede sprint Tino Edelmann, fourth. One wonders what the true face of the French, that if today was favored by low pace in top positions, or if yesterday has just experienced a bad day.
The gi & agrave; cited Moan finished sixth being overtaken also by Eric Frenzel, in the light of the result in the jump of the day disappointed along with Akito Watabe's reach, eighth. The 'only Italian in the race, Samuel Costa, you & egrave; ranked 34 & deg ;. The blue team & egrave; therefore still looking for their first points finish dell''inverno.
Rie & szlig; the takes the lead in the overall World Cup with 200 points. Second position to Frenzel to 153 and the third for Kokslien (136). Johannes Rydzek, now twenty, he then had to give the yellow bib and now & egrave; fourth to share 130.
LILLEHAMMER - GUNDERSEN HS138 / 10KM1. FRENZEL Eric (GER) 25''01 "9 2. RIE & szlig; LE Fabian (GER) 2" 73. SCHMID Jan (NOR) 12 "34. MOAN Magnus (NOR) 15" 15. KLEMETSEN H & aring; vard (NOR) 18 "36. Akito Watabe (JPN) 23" 97. KOKSLIEN Mikko (NOR) in 31 "88. EDELMANN Tino (GER) 33" 59. HEROLA Ilkka (FIN) 36 "010. Kircheisen Bj & ouml; rn (GER) 36" 8Click here for full results.
Next week we are not scheduled races World Cup, but in Park City (United States) there will be three competitions valid for the Continental Cup. The maximum circuit torner & agrave; in action on 20 and 21 December in Ramsau (Austria) where they planned a team sprint and a gundersen.
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