Nordic Skiingmale jumping - Vikersund
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Today the maximum circuit has arrived at Vikersund, where the weekend happening flight competitions on skis and end on Raw Air. The program has changed several times in recent days, and finally there was a return to the initial one, with the qualification to Sunday's race held this evening.
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The day turned out to be complicated, because of the complex weather conditions, and it was possible to start just jump at 19.30 with training, while the qualifying was delayed immediately after. In any case the weather did not help the show, in fact, athletes have struggled to reach 200m, and only two have exceeded 220m. In the end the result was the same as two days ago, with the success of Kamil Stoch.
The Pole has performed the best, clocking the best of the day, whether 226.5m. Thus he demonstrated to try to fight for the crystal ball, although the underdogs are all with Stefan Kraft. The Austrian now has found a difficult jump, highlighting major problems in the first phase of flight, and finally landed before the K, at 197m, reaching only in 10th place. The Salzburg has so again lost the leadership of the Air Raw, superseded by Andreas Wellinger.
The Teutonic concluded 2nd, speaking of good and going to touch 213m, starting from the lower two staves, from the moment that the race management has opted for a lowering for the last three athletes at the start. The German now has accumulated a good advantage of Kraft, 24 lengths, only 4 jumps from the end of the tournament.
Third place went to Domen Prevc, found in a context of the bid him friend, able to land at 220.5m. For once you paid the very extreme position during flight, with whom he has maintained a lot of speed and has again fielded its incredible lift.
Michael Hayböck finished 4th, with a very convincing jump although always seem a bit 'late on detachment. They followed a good Markus Eisenbichler 5th and 6th steel Noriaki Kasai, once again at the top when it comes to knowing how to fly.
Very well Maciej Kot 7th, before the duo Slovenian Jurij Tepes 8th and Peter Prevc 10th. The first phase has had an incredible flying low after failing almost lifted from the tooth. The second one has found a lot of share, resulting in a bit 'abrupt and not so failing to take out speed.
Achieved a good measure Halvor Egner Granerud, with 210m, but had to settle for 15th place as obtained with more than half of head wind meter, while opponents have found it behind. Instead, for the umpteenth time in recent appearances, his teammate Daniel Andre Tande struggled, finishing 21st with 182.5m, still having problems during flight.
Alex Insam finished 34th, thus qualifying to the race on Sunday. Blue has really got a good jump to the first of his career flying competition. They have superat cutting instead the other three Italian Davide Bresadola 49th, Sebastian Colloredo 64th and Roberto Dellasega 70th.
Among the deleted are also Stephan Leyhe, Taku Takeuchi and Jan Ziobro, but this is not really the competition environment best suited to their characteristics.
The ranking of the Raw Air sees overtaking Wellinger (1445.9) against Kraft (1421.9), while for third place Eisenbichler (1406.8) stretches of Stjernen (1380.7), today only 12 °.
Tomorrow there is a team event at 16.15 hours, while the individual competition will take place on Sunday.
QUALIFICATION - VIKERSUND HS 225
1. Kamil STOCH (POL) 216.9 2. Wellinger Andreas (GER) 214.1 3. PREVC Domen (SLO) 207.6 4. HAYBÖCH Michael (AUT) 202.9 5. Eisenbichler Markus (GER) 200.6 6. KASAI Noriaki (JPN) 200.2 7. KOT Maciej (POL) 196.8 8.TEPES Jurij (SLO) 191.7 9. PREVC Peter (SLO) 186.7 10. KRAFT Stefan (AUT) 184.8
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