Nordic SkiingMen jump - Lillehammer
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The second race of the weekend held today in Lillehammer saw the return to the success of Kamil Stoch. The Pole did not rise to the top step of the podium in the individual competition of the World Cup for almost two years, more precisely from victory to Willlingen of January 2015.
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The athlete of Zakopane has built success in the first series, which ended in the lead thanks to a jump from 134m obtained in a slightly unfavorable wind conditions. In the decisive round then he found a modest jump, but with much more adverse weather conditions as they found more than a meter and a half wind behind. The compensation was therefore the key to succeed in maintaining the placement, with a margin of only 6/10 on teammate Maciej Kot.
The jumper dell'AZS Zakopane was really clever to limit the damage in the first set, where she found the windy conditions the worst among all the starters, but still managed to land 129.5m getting the 5th partial square. In the decisive heats the Kot has found a jump of 136m, although he again found difficult conditions, catching up to the second end position, and almost achieving success.
So the first podium for the Pole, but also for Markus Eisenbichler third today. The German led a very steady race, with the 5th and 6th in scoring two race segments. Fourth position for Daniel Andre Tande, author of a powerful comeback in the second set thanks to a tremendous leap from 141m. The Norwegian was in fact only 23 ° after the first half, having found complicated weather conditions as all the athletes with high bib.
confirmations came to Andreas Stjernen (5th), which has overtaken the yellow bib Domen Prevc, 6th tied with manuel fettner. The young Slovenian has been shown to be unable to fight for the podium with major wind behind, but still got a good placement showing significant improvements. The Austrian instead upheld a consistent performance ever had in his career, after the race yesterday when it seemed in decline.
Eighth position for Stefan Kraft, author like Tande of a good recovery starting from the 21st partial square. Right behind Peter Prevc, not as disastrous as twenty-four hours ago, but still far from the pomp of last year.
It closed the top 10 a disappointed Andreas Wellinger. The German, exploiting the favorable wind, in the first series had found an excellent jump that placed him provisionally on the third step of the podium, but at the decisive moment failed to reconfirm. Script similar to Daiki Ito (15th) and Jurij Tepes (16th), who have lost many positions in the second race after finishing the first, respectively 4th and 2nd.
To highlight the great difficulties is the Japanese team. All the top men are struggling with the rear Taku Takeuchi (24th) and Noriaki Kasai even qualified for the decisive series (33 °).
difficult weekend for Severin Freund (26th), appeared much more opaque compared to previous weeks. Today are not able to access the points even Simon Ammann (38th) and Vincent Descombes Sevoie (43 °), while Johann Andre Forfang did not pass the qualification cut.
The general classification is still in the lead Domen Prevc (360), but Daniel Andre Tande gnawing some points (308). In third place was hoisted Maciej Kot with 247 points, beating Severin Freund (233) and Stefan Kraft (231).
The next weekend are two races program, which will be played on the new ski jump HS137 Engelberg. See you on Friday 16 at 17 with qualification.
LILLEHAMMER II - HS 1381. STOCH Kamil (POL) 289.92. KOT Maciej (POL) 289.33. Eisenbichler Markus (GER) 286.24. Daniel Andre Tande (NOR) 284.85. Andreas Stjernen (NOR) 284.06. PREVC Domen (SLO) 283.47. FETTNER Manuel (AUT) 283.8. KRAFT Stefan (AUT) 283.29. PREVC Peter (SLO) 282 310. Wellinger Andreas (GER) 279.8
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