Norway dominates the spectacular team competition in Planica

There have been emotions even the third day of competition at that Planica. L & rsquo; last Team Event of the season was won by Norway ahead of Slovenia and Austria.

Saturday 19 March 2016 5 minutes reading time

The headwind has allowed straordinare performance in complete safety. Suffice to say that, of 64 jumps, only seven did not exceed 200 meters. In the end the victory & egrave; He went to Norway, great favorite of the vigil. After a first set in which Daniel Andre Tande you & egrave; seen beaten both by Stefan Kraft from Jurij Tepes, Anders Fannemel crushed the competition during the second rotation of both races, reaching respectively 234 and 233.5 meters that allow him to enter the club of nine athletes able to exceed 230 meters on three different trampolines, company also succeeded in the course of the race today also Richard Freitag (230 meters accurate in the first series) and Noriaki Kasai (233.5 in the second). Kenneth Gangnes instead dug furrow in the decisive third rotation with two jumps of 233 and 239 meters respectively, which allowed Johann Andre Forfang to walk. Despite a first jump of 210 meters, much lower compared to their possibilities & agrave ;, the 20 year old from Trondheim reached on the occasion of & rsquo; last competition jump the 233.5 meters, giving the feeling of getting up in the final. Norway wins cos & igrave; the third race in a seasonal jump teams. It should be noted that with the exception of the first round, held in Klingenthal and closed in ninth position because of the disqualification of Fannemel, the Scandinavians have always placed first or second in the remaining Team Event. Extraordinary battle between Slovenia and Austria for the second position. Eventually the sprout the hosts, about as usual for Peter Prevc, author of a second jump of 246 meters with telemark who remedied the disappointing performance of Robert Kranjec, penalized by a barrage of cross wind nalla early stage of his second jump. Good performance by Jurij Tepes, in line with expectations to Anze Semenic. All & rsquo; Austria is not just a big Michael Hayb & ouml; ck to get the second step of the podium. The quartet also made up of Stefan Kraft, Manuel Poppinger and manuel fettner must surrender to Slovenia for just one tenth of a point, crazy event considered the size of the Planica ski jump. pi & ugrave well; away from the top three other committed nations, with Japan the fourth, Germany fifth and sixth Poland. Czech Republic and the United States complete the batch of the eight teams entered. Tomorrow the last race of the World Cup season in ski jumping. At 10 scatter & agrave; an individual test given to top 30 of the overall standings therein. TEAM HS225 Planica 1. NOR [Tande, Fannemel, Gangnes, Forfang] 1627.4 2. SLO [Tepes, Semenic, Kranjec, Prevc] 1569.0 3. AUT [Kraft, Poppinger, Fettner, Hayb & ouml; ck] 1568.9 4. JPN [Takeuchi, Kobayashi, Ito, Kasai] 1477.2 5. GER [Leyhe, Freund, Eisenbichler, Freitag] 1473.3 6. POL [Kot, Stekala, Hula, Stoch] 1472.1 7. CZE [Koudelka, Kozisek, Hlava, Matura] 1384.3 8. USA [ Rhoads, Alexander, Bickner, Glasder] 1142.6 Click here for the & rsquo; full analysis of the race & Nbsp; & Nbsp;

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