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OPA Games children in Predazzo, two days of jumping and Nordic combined with a blue podium

The results of the two days in Fiemme, with over 120 young athletes from seven European nations for the event by Unione Sportiva Dolomitica.

Monday 4 October 2021 5 minutes reading time

The OPA Games children of ski jumping and Nordic combined in the summer, ended over the weekend with the appointment in Predazzo which gave a splendid two days of competitions perfectly organized by the local Dolomite Sports Union. The event saw the participation of over 120 young athletes (2007-2008-2009 classes) from seven countries: Italy, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, Slovenia and the Czech Republic. Four-time world champion Martin Schmitt was present in Val di Fiemme as a technician for the young German jumpers. High, very high, the level of the competitors of these OPA Games, young people with the dream of returning to Predazzo as protagonists, perhaps in 2026 for the expected five-ring event that will be staged on the largest trampolines in the Centro del Salto " Giuseppe Dal Ben ”. After the individual jumping and Nordic combined competitions, the HS66 trampoline hosted the team tests in which, as well as 24 hours before, the foreign representatives made a lot of victories. In the women's jumping event, success went to the trio from Slovenia (676.4 points), driven by the very strong Tina Erzar (also first in the individual competition). In second position the team of Germany 1 (618.7 pt) while the bronze went to the second formation of Slovenia (588 pt). The azzurrine Johanna Mahlknecht, Maja Delugan and Leonie Runggaldier finished in ninth place with 309.3 points. In the men's team match Germany double, with the trio of GER1 victorious with 706.2 points in front of the national team mates of GER2 (672.7) and the team of Austria 1, bronze with 667.9 points. Italy fielded at the start three young skiers of the Ski Club Gardena, Min Iorio, Noe Broll and Maximilian Gartner, who finished in 12th place with a final score of 442.4 points. The Nordic combined races concluded the long day of competitions, giving Italy a splendid podium in the 3 × 2 km women's gundersen in which Leonie Runggaldier, Anna Senoner and Ludovica Del Bianco won third place (+ 1''09 ") Behind the winning trio of Germany 1 and Slovenia (+37"). After finishing the jump segment in the lead, with a 45 "advantage over the most immediate pursuing teams, the Italians underwent the comeback already during the first fraction, still managing to resist in the final and give themselves the only podium of this weekend. of races. In the men's combined, the last competition of the program, it is Germany that takes the lion's share by placing the trio of GER2 in front of the companions of GER1, beaten in the sprint, while Austria takes the bronze by closing at 13 ”from the top. Italy, with Min Iorio, Noe Broll and Manuel Boninsegna, finished eleventh. BLUE WORKOUTS The coordinator of the national teams, Sandro Sambugaro, has chosen Formia as the venue for a gathering of the men's Nordic combined teams A and B, which will take place from Monday 4 to Sunday 10 October. On the Roman coast there will be Samuel Costa, Aaron Kostner, Raffaele Buzzi, Iacopo Bortolas and Domenico Mariotti, accompanied by federal technicians Danny Winkelmann, Pietro Frigo and Enrico Nizzi.

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