In Engelberg Richard Freitag won a race with the top four separated by 1.5 points!

The first of the two races of Engelberg saw an equilibrium of extreme, evidenced by the fact that the first four finishers were separated by 1.5 points, equivalent to less than one meter (measured 1.8 points on the Large Hill).

Saturday 20 December 2014 5 minutes reading time

Paradoxically, the pi & ugrave; incisive nell''arco of the two series & egrave; was "Mister Inconstancy" Richard Freitag, athlete usually alternate jumps devastating to other mediocre. Today, however, the German has shown great solidity & agrave; and, in a race extremely leveled, you & egrave; imposed exceeding 6/10 Roman Koudelka. The twenty-three registered with the SciClub of Nickelh & uuml; tte Aue must thank anemometers Since & eacute ;, & agrave to equality; Measuring and with half a point less in style, has excelled thanks to a compensation pi & ugrave; favorable. The Czech nevertheless confirmed that he had lost the form despite the week off. Four athletes on the podium went up as the third place & egrave; was awarded ex aequo. Surely pu & ograve; be very satisfied Slovenian Jernej Damjan, appeared very comfortable in these days on the Gro & szlig; -Titlis-Schanze. Instead the 'Austrian Michael Hayb & ouml; ck will live & agrave; this third position as a defeat Since & eacute; not in the race & egrave; could be seen as dominant in training and above all & egrave; made protagonist in a bad second jump after closing to command the first series, emulating cos & Igrave; the worst habits of the "wasteful" par excellence Michael Uhrmann. Fifth place for the "hammer" Peter Prevc, still hunting the first victory of the season, but at the same time never came out of the first nine positions. The Slovenian preceded Stefan Kraft, author of the best score in the second set and moved up from twelfth place. Surely the home fans would have expected to pi & ugrave; Simon Ammann, who finished ninth having to give up fighting for the podium because of a first jump fails altogether. Mediocre instead evidence of Anders Bardal, fifteenth, and have largely fallen short of expectations the overall lead in the World Cup Anders Fannemel, 21 & deg ;, and the 'Austrian Gregor Schlierenzauer, 23 & deg ;. Notably as Phillip Sj & oslash; en has made a good debut season and finished 11 & deg ;, just in front of the same age Johann Forfang, 12 & deg ;, great protagonist in Continental Cup seven days ago as the German Stephan Leyhe, 13 & deg ;. Homemade Italian Davide Bresadola just missed the points ending 33 & deg ;, performing in any case a jump race discreet. Once again they have exceeded the cut instead of the qualification Sebastian Colloredo and Andrea Morassi. In light of today's result the overall standings of the World Cup is shortened. Fannemel remains yellow bib with 440 points, but sees approaching rivals. Freund & egrave; according to 397, Hayb & ouml; ck third at 373, Koudelka fourth at 370, 368 Prevc fifth, sixth at Ammann 310.ENGELBERG HS137 (I) 1. FREITAG Richard [GER] 277.72. KOUDELKA Roman [CZE] 277.13. DAMJAN Jernej [SLO] 276.23. HAYB & Ã–land; CK Michael [AUT] 276.25. PREVC Peter [SLO] 274.86. KRAFT Stefan [AUT] 273.47. FREUND Severin [GER] 272.78. Eisenbichler Markus [GER] 268.09. Simon Ammann [ON] 265 710. VELTA Rune [NOR] 264.2Clicca here for full results. Tomorrow replicates.

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