Nordic SkiingMen's Jump-World Cup
Kamil Stoch with two jumps to the limits of perfection won today's race with 28 points of margin on Dawid Kubacki and 33 on Robert Johansson.
Tuesday 13 March 2018 4 minutes reading time
The first series was very spectacular thanks to the strong front wind that made the trampoline perform. Several athletes have gone beyond 130 m, but only one has managed to overcome the HS point, set at 140 m, Kamil Stoch. In fact, the Polish landed at 140.5 m, despite starting from a lower pole, and inflicted 15 points behind his compatriot Kubacki (139 m).
Behind Stoch there was great balance, Hula closed third to 2.4 lengths from second place and half way through the race thirteen athletes have paid less than ten points from the bottom step of the podium. Several names of thickness have not broken the pass for the second series: Kot 31 °, Takeuchi 36 °, Hilde, the last race of the career 39 °, Damjan 40 ° and Hayböck 44 °, it is not qualified even Sebastian Colloredo that is attested in 47th position.
In the second act the climatic conditions have completely changed, as the wind has started to blow behind the athletes. Only two athletes were kissed by luck, finding it frontal and took advantage of it, managing to overcome the 'HS. Freitag arrived at 141.5, the best measure in the series, but he paid duty on stylistic evaluations and finished 5th. Dawid Kubacki instead was able to support an excellent telemark at 140.5 m, managing to get the second place, which is the best result in his career.
The 28-year-old from Nowy Targ has had to bow to the perfection of Kamil Stoch, who scored the best score even in the second series, reaching 141 m, despite the lower pole and the wind behind him. The gap between the two at the end was a good 28 points.
The podium was completed by Robert Johansson, a comeback from 5th place, who had the best of compatriot Stjernen (4th) for 1.2 points. Two other Norge entered the top 10, Forfang closed 6th, Tande "only" 10th. Good race for Peter Prevc 7th which preceded Stefan Kraft 8th and Stefan Hula, slipped from third to ninth place.
When four individual races are missing at the end of the season, Kamil Stoch is clearly leading the overall standings with 1103 points, ahead of Freitag (913) and Tande (849). The Polish also leads the Raw Air standings with 56 margin lengths on Johansson.
Here the complete result of today's race!
Here the overall World Cup standings!
Here the ranking of Raw Air!
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