Resounding in Engelberg, goals and Polish victory of Jan Rib!

The first of the two races of Engelberg has as an athlete totally unexpected winner, the Pole Jan Rib, athlete in the World Cup had so far achieved little or nothing.

Saturday 21 December 2013 5 minutes reading time

The twenty-two of Zakopane boasted only two placings in the points in his entire career and in recent weeks she had no inkling as to be able to obtain such a result. Today, however, in a very strange race, where they found several big overly complicated conditions, the Rib has literally break the bank. After closing the first set in his head, he managed to perfection and the pressure did not betray the fact by emotions succeeded in making a wonderful second jump that allowed him to equal the record of the trampoline and establish itself before the two favorites on the eve , or compatriot Kamil Stoch and the Norwegian Anders Bardal, the only top athletes not to have had great difficulty in the first series. In particular, Stoch, seventh after the first half, achieved the highest score in the second set and recovered five positions giving Poland a memorable day. In fact, to make matters worse the shotgun, also came sixth and seventh Piotr Zyla Klemens Muranka. For more Stoch snatched the yellow bib to Gregor Schlierenzauer, sadly its twenty-seventh want to demerit, either by bad luck with the wind. In Austria home you can look back with satisfaction at Thomas Diethart twenty-fourth just three tenths of a point from the podium, never so high in the maximum circuit, and the growing status as Wolfgang Loitzl, eighth. In addition to the Rib and Diethart also came a surprising fifth place in the revived veteran Jakub Janda. The home crowd certainly expected more from Simon Ammann, the eleventh. '' The Swiss has "broken" the first jump and then recover seventeen positions in the second series, thanks to the weather conditions worsened for many opponents. Even in the points the German Severin Freund, who fell fortunately without consequences. Chapter Italy. Unfortunately, none of the three blue involved was able to mark points. Roberto Dellasega has confirmed the'' blue in better shape at the time and missed the first thirty to 4.1 points, finishing 37th. Further back instead Bresadola David and Sebastian Colloredo, respectively 46 Â° and 47 Â°. As mentioned Stoch takes the lead in the overall World Cup with 310 points, followed by Schlierenzauer at 302. Bardal was third with 266, Freund fourth with 256, the'' absent Takeuchi fifth with 255, Ammann sixth at 230. Tomorrow at 14.00 is replicated with the second individual race. ENGELBERG - LARGE HILL (I) 1. Rib Jan (POL) 275.42. STOCH Kamil (POL) 269.23. Anders Bardal (NOR) 268.34. Diethart Thomas (AUT) 268.05. JANDA Jakub (CZE) 261.76. Piotr Zyla (POL) 261.37. MURANKA Klemens (POL) 260.48. LOITZL Wolfgang (AUT) 259.49. Ingvaldsen Ole Marius (NOR) 258 410. FANNEMEL Anders (NOR) 257.1Clicca here for full results.

Francesco Paone

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