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Today in Oslo has staged a competition at extremely fought and balanced teams, with four nations in the fight for the podium. To finally impose itself was Austria, which was missing the appointment with success for almost three years, ie from the Planica flying race of 22 March 2014.
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All four members of Rot-Weiß-Rot team have spoken at best, managing to win the victory is not obvious on the eve, as it did not set as favorites but only as outsiders. Michael Hayböck has found a first crazy jump from 140m, exploiting well the strong headwinds but failing to support the telemark, and then repeat on high level even in the second round. Manuel fettner did well with two solid performances, Markus Schiffner has struggled on the first jump, while you are well defended in the second. Finally Stefan Kraft showed its superiority at this stage of the season, marking the highest score of the day with two masterful jumps.
Runner-up Germany in the lead after the first half but then slipped back in the second set. Markus Eisenbichler first found an excellent performance from 140m, while it has lost ground with the second jump. Stephan Leyhe made his, even going beyond expectations in the second jump, while Richard Freitag really liked in the first. Finally Andreas Wellinger has had some problems with the wind in the first half of the race, not going beyond the 126m, while the second has performed best reaching 134.5m, but was unable to support the telemark.
Third place went to Poland, which confirms also on the podium in all team competitions played in the season, managing to climb from 4th position after the first half thanks to the best score set during the second set. Piotr Zyla found two excellent performance and Kamil Stoch has made good score two. Dawid Kubacki and Maciej Kot instead struggled in the first jump, while in the second they are redeemed.
Norway hostess came 4th. Andreas Stjernen enjoyed in the first jump, while the second was missing something. They did rather the exact opposite Robert Johansson and Daniel Andre Tande, excellent in the second round. Finally Johann Andre Forfang found two discrete performance, however distant from those made mark in training yesterday and today.
Fifth Ryoyu Kobayashi of Japan, Taku Takeuchi, Noriaki Kasai and Daiki Ito, however disconnected nearly 100 points by the Scandinavians. It followed the remodeled Slovenia 6 ^ (Nejc Dezman, Tilen Bartol, Jernej Damjan, Peter Prevc), which has disappointed the oldest of the lot. Prevc you want is well expressed in overcoming both occasions the 130m.
The Czech Republic (Viktor Polasek, Vojtech Stursa, Jakub Janda, Roman Koudelka) came in 7 th position, ahead of Switzerland 8 ^ gained access for the second time this season the second set. From point out the solid performances of Simon Ammann in the first half of the race and that of Killian Peier in the second. Finland finished 9th, where he had a ride on an empty Janne Ahonen.
For the first time this season Italy took part in a team event, coming 10th. Alex Insam has performed very well finding a quantum leap, Roberto Dellasega has instead suffered from low take-off speeds only reaching 98m, Sebastian Colloredo was discreet and finally David Bresadola has collected a good performance.
Today's shifts are also earned for the ranking of Raw Air, therefore the excellent proof of Stefan Kraft earned him the head with 404.3, followed now by Peter Prevc (395.2). Andreas Wellinger slipped to 3rd place (392.7), also approached by Piotr Zyla (392.2).
Appointment with the individual competition will take place tomorrow at 14.15.
TEAM EVENT - OSLO HS1341. AUSTRIA (Hayböck, Fettner, Schiffner, Kraft) 999.72. GERMANY (Eisenbichler, Leyhe, Freitag, Wellinger) 987.23. POLAND (Zyla, Stoch, Kubacki, Kot) 986.74. NORWAY (Stjernen, Johansson, Tande, Forfang) 983.15. JAPAN (R. Kobayashi, Takeuchi, Kasai, Ito) 889.86. SLOVENIA (Dezman, Bartol, Damjan, Prevc P.) 868.77. REP. CZECH (Polasek, Stursa, Janda, Koudelka) 843.78. SWITZERLAND (Deschwanden, Schuler, Peier, Ammann) 802.3
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