Antti Aalto surprisingly won the qualification of large hill at the World Championships in Lahti

Antti Aalto vince a sorpresa la qualificazione su large hill ai Mondiali di Lahti
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Antti Aalto surprisingly won the qualification of large hill at the World Championships in Lahti

In the afternoon went on stage in Lahti the qualification to the World Championship competition that will take place tomorrow on large hill. Surprisingly, it has imposed the Finn Antti Aalto, in a day where the weather conditions are not optimal and compensation has often been a liar, because the cross-winds encountered by many athletes has been counted as a front.

The Finnish Aalto drew a wildcard with the wind, by finding a frontal meters while most of the opponents had half. The twenty-one, however, was very adept at exploiting, managing to maintain a high share in output from the tooth and finally reaching 128.5 meters. The host has so pulls out a performance beyond expectations, consider that career was never able to store up points in the circuit. Second place for Andreas Stjernen, who with a great technical movement has come to 125m, with not so favorable conditions despite the compensation has said the opposite. They followed Daiki Ito 3rd, Viktor Polasek 4th and 5th Simon Ammann, the authors of very convincing performance. In the top positions are much Finland, because in addition to the winner, Jarkko Määttä was 6th and 7th Ville Larinto. All three of the Blues in the race have easily passed the qualification rock. The best it turned out to be Alex Insam 19th, while Sebastian Colloredo and David Bresadola Area stood in 31 ^ and 32 ^ square. Among the 12 athletes out of the race tomorrow we find a really excellent name. Roman Koudelka fact closed 42 ° laundry having completely the jump, wrong time and the detachment reached only 98.5m. The rain that characterized the start of qualifying in the afternoon turned into snow, causing a slowdown in-conduit run for the last athletes at the start. So the prequalified they found themselves jumping in very complicated conditions, struggling even to reach the point K place to 116m. Has aroused great impression Peter Prevc, came to 127.5m with absolute ease and being clearly the best among the last starters. Appointment with the rainbow competition scheduled tomorrow afternoon at 17:30. QUALIFICATION - WORLD LAHTI HS 1301. Aalto Antti (FIN) 123.42. Andreas Stjernen (NOR) 121.83. Daiki ITO (JPN) 116.34. Viktor Polasek (CZE) 114.85. Simon Ammann (SUI) 114.56. MÄTTÄÄ Jarkko (FIN) 113.5 Click here for the full results.
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