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This weekend were played three competitions valid for the Continental Cup in that Vikersund. As in the main circuit to dominate was a Prevc: The second brother Dinners collected a pair of wins and a second place. Well in general all Slovene, with an Anze Semenic victory and a podium for Rok Justin. Two placings in the top 10 for Sebastian Colloredo, the best Italian.
Sunday 11 December 2016 7 minutes reading time
Testing took a script quite different, in fact the wind has played a key role, as usual the Norwegians locations: Friday has competed with a strong wind behind you, so with very high speed; today he was blowing a fair breeze front, so you jumped with significantly lower pole; in Saturday's competition the conditions were a middle ground between those just described. Also the last two competitions have been seasoned by an annoying fog.
In the first Prevc race it was imposed by a margin of 2.1 lengths on a newfound Tom Hilde, after recovering a position in the decisive run on a rickety Halvor Egner Granerud in turn the final eighth. Third podium position for a strong Jan Ziobro, by a whisker (0.2 points) in front of Semenic.
In the competition yesterday was confirmed again at the top of the twenties Kranj, able to take a good lead over rivals in the first jump and monitoring the situation in the decisive race segment. Second place went to another athlete Slovenian, or Justin, in turn good in the first run and the second accountant. The only Austrian podium of the weekend was brought home by Daniel Huber, the third in this test, ahead of compatriot Florian Altenburger. Disappointment, however, for Elias Tollinger: third after the first series collapsed at the decisive moment to the 9th place finish.
Today, the domain of the scene was taken from Anze Semenic, author of the best score in the first round with large margin, and the protagonist of the longest jump in the decisive moment, landing at 118 meters. Prevc, meanwhile, recorded the best score in the second segment of the race, catching up a position on a Hilde second podium in three days.
Summing Slovenia was by far the best nation, it has monopolized positions 5 to 9 podiums and to report there is also a top 5 for the young Bor Pavlovcic in first competition. Therefore they are advised various Anze Lanisek, Nejc Dezman and Jaka Hvala who are ill-appearing in the maximum circuit.
Troubled the hosts, to the good performance of Hilde: neo Granerud relegated from the World Cup has not gone beyond a 12th and a 10th place between yesterday and today, while the other, or Bjoereng, not he even picked up points. Good news from the second line, such as Joakim Aune (14 °, 8 ° and 17 °) and Andreas Granerud Buskum (16 °, 16 ° and 13 °).
For the Italian team arrived promising signs by Sebastian Colloredo and David Bresadola, both in the points in all three tests. The first got his best result a 5th streets today, while yesterday un''altra top 10 with a 7th place. The first day instead struggled more, picking up a 25th position.
For the athlete of Pellizzano, in chronological order, recording a 23 °, 18 ° and a 20 th place. The last Italian athlete in the race Alex Insam appeared back condition, then did not get points: his placings were 52 °, 68 ° and 46 °.
The general classification reflects the race to 3 additional numbers for the second period of the World Cup: Prevc resulting in large advantage over all the competition with 280 points, followed by Hilde (180), Semenic (166) and Daniel Huber (130) .
Next Saturday will be staged in Ruka the fourth race of the Continental Cup, where there will be scheduled around them.
COC VIKERSUND I - HS 117
1. PREVC Dinners (SLO) 284.92. Tom Hilde (NOR) 282.83. Ziobro Jan (POL) 282.14. Anze Semenic (SLO) 281.95. PAVLOVCIC Bor (SLO) 279.76. PASCHKE Pius (GER) 279.5
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COC VIKERSUND II - HS 117
1. PREVC Dinners (SLO) 292.52. JUSTIN Rok (SLO) 286.43. HUBER Daniel (AUT) 283.74. ALTENBURGER Florian (AUT) 281.85. PASCHKE Pius (GER) 277.86. Tom Hilde (NOR) 277.1
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COC VIKERSUND III - HS 117
1. Anze Semenic (SLO) 273.22. PREVC Dinners (SLO) 265.13. Tom Hilde (NOR) 264.94. HUBER Daniel (AUT) 257.75. COLLOREDO Sebastian (ITA) 257.06. ALTENBURGER Florian (AUT) 256.6
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