Kamil Stoch won the troubled qualifying Trondheim

Also today the Raw Air has moved to Trondheim, where there was a long and troubled qualifying. In fact, after a start smoothly for the first 40 athletes, the race was interrupted for half an hour a snowstorm, with strong wind changed direction at all times. He was then taken up and completed, however, interspersed with numerous pauses. The winner of the competition was Kamil Stoch, returned to the top after weeks in which he had never been the protagonist.

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The Pole has found good performance, landing at 139m, just a meter before the point HS. He has so regulated measuring the home athlete Andreas Stjernen, author in turn a jump with the exclamation point. The difference between the two was only the compensation for the wind, since they measure and stylistic assessments were the same. Good jump for Andreas Wellinger 3rd, arrived in 138m, which takes the lead of the Raw Air standings, going to zero the gap to Stefan Kraft and finding this evening in front of 7.1 lengths. The Austrian fact was very unlucky, having big problems coming out of the tooth, where he found the wind behind. The addition of Salzburg was less coordinated than the habits and lost altitude abruptly, reaching 120m and finishing 27th. This jump made him lose leadership of the Norwegian tour, but creates no problem in optical crystal ball, because there were no points of the World Cup at stake. The longest jump of the day, 140m, was recorded by Johann Andre Forfang, 4th, who has very well exploited the favorable conditions of the moment, with strong headwinds. The Norwegian was also one of the last athletes to jump before the interruption for the dense snowfall. Good jumps for Peter Prevc 5th and Vincent Descombes Sevoie 6th, adept at finding large sizes taking advantage of the good wind. It followed Daiki Ito 7th, the fittest among the Japanese, in turn, an increase in this season finale. Markus Eisenbichler finished 9th, defending himself well in difficult conditions and taking out a good test of maturity. remarkable performance for the Blues Alex Insam 20 Â°, 22 Â° and David Bresadola Sebastian Colloredo 38th, able to smoothly store access to the race tomorrow. He did not pass the cut instead Roberto Dellasega, 64th. Among those excluded are important names like Jurij Tepes and Jan Ziobro, as well as Gregor Schlierenzauer, climbed into pole of starting right at that moment when the conditions have become impossible. Having red light, the Austrian has long stood by the gate, waiting for the situation to improve. The wait lasted for nearly 30 minutes, after the Tyrolean has moved away from the springboard, giving up to the jump. The athlete is not new to waivers, just remember the race of Klingenthal in November 2013, when the Rot-WeiÃŸ-Rot athlete refused to jump along with Anders Bardal. Among the prequalified have not taken off manuel fettner, Michael HaybÃ¶ck and Domen Prevc the eve already out of contention for the Raw Air. Bad performance instead for Daniel Andre Tande, once again decomposed into output from the tooth and landed very short to 113m, only 54 Â°. As anticipated, now the Air Raw ranking has a new leader, Wellinger with 942.2 points. It follows Kraft (935.1) and Eisenbichler (917.5), which is approaching Stjernen (906.5). Appointment with the Trondheim competition scheduled at 17 tomorrow. QUALIFICATION - TRONDHEIM HS 1401. STOCH Kamil (POL) 146.02. Andreas Stjernen (NOR) 144.53. Wellinger Andreas (GER) 139.54. Forfang Johann Andre (NOR) 137.45. PREVC Peter (SLO) 135.26. DESCOMBES SEVOIE Vincent (FRA) 134.37. Daiki ITO (JPN) 132.28. Eisenbichler Markus (GER) 163.19. Simon Ammann (SUI) 125 910. KOT Maciej (POL) 129.5 Click here for the full results.

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