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In a competition strongly influenced wind Andreas Wellinger managed to turn the hierarchies in the overall standings thanks to a gust of wind that has compromised the test Jernej Damjan.
Thursday 3 October 2013 5 minutes reading time
Slovenian, yellow bib with a lead of 79 points on the Teutonic teenager, he found himself to jump in the first series with prohibitive conditions and has collected a sad forty-eighth position.
Wellinger instead made a perfect jump and closed to control the first set and then defend the advantage built on Andreas Kofler in the second. L'' Austrian concluded with a gap of 4.2 points from the youngest adversary'' and today was the only one to stand up to the eighteen year old Ruhpolding.
In fact, the third placed Janne Ahonen, paid 16.9 lengths to the winner. For his part, Finnish can be fully satisfied with the result as he managed to catch eleven positions in the second series.
The thirty-six of Lahti,'' returned to competitive sport after two years of retirement, missed the podium in a competition of the highest summer circuit by exactly seven years (his last place in the top-three dated October 3, 2006). The veteran Nordic won the third place at the expense of the German Severin Freund (trailing by just four tenths of a point) and the Czech Jan Matura (beaten 2.9 lengths).
Homemade Italian Davide Bresadola has marked points and finished in 24th place. '' Unfortunately, the former nordic combined has lost ground in the second series after scoring the twelfth score in the first.
Roberto Dellasega unfortunately had a lift to empty after doing very well in both qualifying in Continental Cup on this trampoline. The'' blue closed forty-seventh and consequently did not earn access to the second series, as well as Germany's Andreas Wank and Polish Kamil Stoch, sensationally last one of the athletes being penalized by Aeolus.
Wellinger then won the Summer Grand Prix with 440 points against 419 of Damjan, the Anders Bardal of 323, 320 and 290 of Matjaz Pungertar by Krzysztof Biegun. Germany has won the overall standings for the third time in twenty years of history after the claims of Sven Hannawald (1999) and Andreas Wank (2012).
It should be noted that the success of Wellinger is well deserved because he played only five games (where he picked up three wins, a second and a third place) in front of the nine Damjan. In addition, the German took off in competitions by the high rate of technical and Slovenian has marked most of his points in the races held on Asian soil and then with greatly reduced competition.
Basically you can safely say that the Summer Grand Prix was won by'' athlete stronger in recent months and not from the present.
The winter season begins right where the summer is over, in Klingenthal. Friday, November 22 will be held to qualify for the race on Sunday 24th. In the middle, Saturday 23, there will be the team event.
In the first period of the'' World Cup Italy will deploy 3 athletes as Sebastian Colloredo, who was absent today due to an illness, beautifully preserved in the first 55 of the World Ranking List.
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