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The two Ramsau races were characterized by a questionable management of the Salto segment. The Norwegians Riiber and Graaback win.
Sunday 23 December 2018 5 minutes reading time
After the Provisional Competition Round on Friday that saw the Austrian Franz-Josef Rehrl prevail in front of Jarl Magnus Riiber and his brothers Watabe with Yoshito in third place and Akito in fourth and the blue Samuel Costa and Alessandro Pittin in thirtieth and thirty-fifth position , the jump segment of the first race, scheduled for Saturday, soon became a lottery due to the wind.
A situation in which Alessandro Pittin had found the lucky number, a window of wind that had allowed him when there were only two jumps to the conclusion of the segment to be in twelfth position to 46 "from the provisional leader, the Japanese Yoshito Watabe. conditions have further deteriorated to the point of forcing a perhaps late cancellation and recourse to the results of the PCR to determine the departure of the test of Fondo with Costa at 1''42 "and the Friulian at 1''56" from Rehrl.
The Austrian, surprisingly, after being reabsorbed by Riiber travels in common accord with the leader of the World Cup and only in the last meters surrenders to the fourth consecutive victory of the 21-year-old Norwegian. On the third step of the podium the German Fabian Riessle imposing himself in sprint on Johannes Rydzek and Vinzenz Geiger. Seventeenth place for Alessandro Pittin and thirtieth for Samuel Costa while Raffaele Buzzi finished in forty-third position.
Different problems but trampoline again in the crosshairs in the race on Sunday. When Jarl Magnus Riiber comes to the jump, the natural in-run of the Ramsau springboard crumbles with the tracks damaged by debris and not cleaned properly before the green light to the Norwegian missing the jump and finds himself in forty-third position. The segment is won by Poland's Szczepan Kupczak who precedes the German Terence Weber and the Austrian Rehrl with Fabian Riessle and Johannes Rydzek, thirty seconds behind the leader. Alessandro Pittin finds himself in the thirty-first place with a 21st-minute delay from the leader, Raffaele Buzzi is forty-one at 1'59 "and Samuel Costa forty-fourth at 2''20".
The Bottom Test turns into a fight between the Germans in the hunt for the first victory in an individual test of the season and the Norwegian Joergen Graaback, back in the leading group in the first lap. They are Johannes Rydzek, Vinzenz Geiger and the same Graaback to play the victory with the Norwegian who on the final straight runs his speed and wins the fifth consecutive victory for Norway, albeit in absentia of Riiber, while Rydzek climbs on the second step of the podium and Geiger on the third.
Alessandro Pittin, who has returned to score the best time on skis, gets the best finish of the season with the tenth place 30 seconds behind the winner. Raffaele Buzzi is thirty-second while Samuel Costa finished in fortieth position.
In the overall World Cup standings, Jarl Magnus Riiber continues to be the undisputed leader with 480 points; second place, at 295, for the German Johannes Rydzek, third Joergen Graabak (267).
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