Maciej Kot won the second race of mad PyeongChang

Today was staged the second pre-Olympic competition in PyeongChang. Because of the complex wind conditions it made the decision to move the race on the normal hill, whereas initially it was planned on the large hill. At 5 days after the first victory of his career, Maciej Kot further sought success.

Thursday 16 February 2017 8 minutes reading time

The wind was made by the master, exceedingly affecting the performance of athletes depending on the intensity with which blew. It is coming off a race with many upheavals from one series, with some extremely favorable conditions favored by athletes, while others penalized by the sudden empty air. Maciej Kot has found a great leap from 108.5m in the first half of the race, doing all the best and provisionally placing 4th. At the decisive moment it has even improved, landing 110.5m despite a not so favorable wind, clocking the best score and arpionando 2nd career success. place of honor for Stefan Kraft, which is still one of the most fit athletes of the moment, although it is not as dominant as yesterday, but where he had competed on the trampoline from much higher profile. Today has found two good jumps from 106m and 107m, the first starting from the lower gate, but could not repeat the measurement obtained in qualifying, where he had reached 113.5m, new trampoline records. Third place for Andreas Wellinger, author of a remarkable comeback in the decisive round. In fact the German has found a first extremely difficult jump due to an air pocket: he lost in a sudden altitude managing to reach only 99m and finishing 16th. With a fabulous second jump of 112m with telemark, for which he was awarded by the judges with high assessments, he has even managed to climb on the top step of the podium. Fourth coin to Peter Prevc, who lost the podium for 8/10 after being in the lead after the first half. Slovenian has found a great first jump, getting to the point HS (109m), while the second did not go beyond the 102m, also messing up landing and losing important points in the stylistic assessments. What is lacking the holder of the crystal ball is continuity: it has proven to be worth the positions at the top, but still alternates jumps to top of the class to other undertone. Daniel Andre Tande finished 5th, with a tender appearance similar to that of Prevc. After an excellent first performance (111.5m) valsogli the 2nd provisional plaza, lost positions with the decisive jump. The Norwegian preceded Kamil Stoch 6 minutes into great comeback after the first round of the 18 ^ position. In the first jump polish it was not flawless, finding even complex weather conditions and reaching only 100m. He remedied in the second heat, limiting the gap to Kraft that today the recovers 40 points. Excellent 7 ^ square Evgeniy Klimov, in front of Dawid Kubacki 8th and 9th Andreas Wank. For the Teutonic it's best season, but it is said that the result is worth the call to the world, because it did not meet the minimum requirements of the German federation. It closed the top 10 Robert Johansson, good result in the context of him uncongenial. Athletes who had concluded the first heat between the 5th and 9th place (Anze Lanisek, Karl Geiger, Clemens Aigner, Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes and Domen Prevc), helped by a good wind in the decisive leap all have found conditions impossible to deal with, sinking in the rankings. The best of these is ultimately found to be Lanisek 14 Â°, while the prize for most unlucky athlete goes to Geiger, who found the worst of the race winds. Among those who did not have access to the second segment of the race we find Simon Ammann, Vincent Descombes Sevoie, Jan Ziobro and Stefan Hula. The latter was involved in an unfortunate incident: he found a piece of ice in the in-run channels, so he was allowed to repeat the jump. But the second attempt fared no better, as he fell after a gleaned upon landing. It did not took part in the qualification and therefore the race Richard Freitag. Kamil Stoch is still leading the overall standings with 1280 points, but Kraft (1220) has reported a 60 detachment lengths. Some distance away in third place Tande (1119), while the fight for the 4th place is very lively, with Domen Prevc (899), Maciej Kot (883) and Andreas Wellinger (848). Now the maximum circuit takes a break of a month, in which will stage the World Championships in Lahti. It will begin on Thursday, 23 with the qualification to compete on normal hill. Pyeongchang II - HS 1091. KOT Maciej (POL) 256.22. KRAFT Stefan (AUT) 252.23. Wellinger Andreas (GER) 240.84. PREVC Peter (SLO) 240.05. Daniel Andre Tande (NOR) 238.86. STOCH Kamil (POL) 231.77. Klimov Evgeniy (RUS) 230.58. Dawid Kubacki (POL) 28.39. WANK Andreas (GER) 226 310. JOHANSSON Robert (NOR) 224.6 Click here for the full results.

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