Nordic SkiingMens Jump - Sochi 2014
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As seen during training Kamil Stoch was the big favorite for the Olympic race on Normal Hill. The Pole has not lived up to expectations and has swept the competition winning in an imperious'' gold medal.
Sunday 9 February 2014 5 minutes reading time
The twenty-six of Zakopane had no rivals and proved just at a higher level than their opponents, so as to inflict a gap of 12.7 points per runner-up,'' enormity of a small trampoline.
Poland at the Olympics so far had only won a gold medal in ski jumping. In Sapporo in 1972 Wojcieh Fortuna is imposed by surprise, and with a great deal of good fortune, in the trial of Large Hill. Instead, Adam Malysz, the largest Polish vaulter of all time, has never managed to get most precious metal stopping three times the square'' s honor.
'' Silver medal for Peter Prevc, able to pull off the best of the weekend just jump in the race. The Slovenian nothing has been against Stoch, but managed to win a historic achievement for his country. Slovenia had never gotten a placement so prestigious an Olympic event. Indeed, taking into account the timing of Yugoslavia had arrived only two medals, both bronze, with Matjaz Debelak in Calgary in 1988, and team event in Salt Lake City in 2002.
Bronze medal for Anders Bardal, in turn grew up shots than the workouts. The Norwegian, the first Olympic podium as Stoch and Prevc, was beaten to second place by 1.2 points, but clearly exceeded the closest rivals.
The list of disappointed the day it happened by the Austrian team, which has remained dry medals. Thomas and Michael Diethart Hayböck have made a'' very good performance, but they could not oppose the first three and had to settle for fourth and fifth place. Well below expectations Gregor Schlierenzauer, eleventh and appeared far away from the squared circle technician. Thomas Morgenstern has instead made possible by closing the fourteenth.
Certainly belongs to the ranks of the disappointed also Severin Freund. The German in the light of the results of the training was the most accredited rival Stoch, but he compromised his race due to a fall, fortunately without consequences, on the occasion of his first jump. In big trouble also the reigning Olympic champion Simon Ammann, only dicassettesimo.
Sebastian Colloredo home in Italy has hit the target'' to qualify to the second set and finished twenty-eighth. David Bresadola instead after finding particularly unfavorable conditions suit was even banned for not even being ranked.
SOCHI - OLYMPIC GAMES - NORMAL HILL1. STOCH Kamil (POL) 278.02. PREVC Peter (SLO) 265.33. Anders Bardal (NOR) 264.14. Diethart Thomas (AUT) 258.35. HAYBÖCK Thomas (AUT) 258.06. Wellinger Andreas (GER) 257.17. KOT Maciej (POL) 255.88. KASAI Noriaki (JPN) 255.29. DAMJAN Jernej (SLO) 254 710. WANK Andreas (GER) 253.4
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The second Olympic title in the men's jump, on the individual Large Hill, will be awarded Saturday, February 15th. Meanwhile on Tuesday, 11 there will be the women's race Normal Hill.
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