Nordic Skiingmale jumping - Vikersund
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In the late afternoon today has staged a spectacular detailed event team on the flight pad for Vikersund. Many athletes have scored their personal best, the one in Poland has been rewritten and finally the world record was shot down twice. The race was won by Norway, but were Robert Kraft Stefan Johansson before and then to steal the show, going to land respectively 252m and 253.5m.
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The competition has struggled to take off, starting at 16.15, but has proceeded in fits and starts until interrupted after 10 athletes because of too intense headwind. The race direction has also determined that you were to start again at 17:30 when conditions were provided for the best. Indeed it paid off, because by that time the conditions were fantastic, making the high performance trampoline.
Picking up the first win of the season in a team competition was Norway. Daniel Andre Tande made a lackluster performance and he was always a bit 'too decomposed during flight, but still going to exceed HS matter at the first jump. Robert Johansson however was superb, before clocking a world record with 252m and then reconfirming on levels of excellence (238m) despite a very difficult wind. He made his Johann Andre Forfang, very well especially in the second set where he reached 234m. Finally Andreas Stjernen crowned the victory of the home team with a crazy jump from 242m.
Runner-Poland, which has long remained in contact with the top, contending success. Piotr Zyla already during the trial round went to snatch the Polish leadership to Kamil Stoch, but it has since improved again, leading him to 245.5m. The measure was then also approached by Maciej Kot with reached 244.5m. The athlete of Zakopane today expressed above its possibilities, unleashing two masterful performance. Stoch in turn clocked his personal best, landing at 243m, while Dawid Kubacki has stayed away from his companions, but the flight races are not exactly fertile ground for him.
Third position for Austria in the new world record holder Stefan Kraft. The Salzburg in the first run found an incredible leap, reaching more altitude than usual, but without losing speed. With a phase of encyclopedic flight then he went to reach 253.5m, snatching the world record to Johansson. In the final series it has once again demonstrated a true champion, having reached 244m even placing telemark. encouraging performance for Michael Hayböck, who clocked an excellent first 239m, then going to exceed the K point in extremely difficult conditions. Manuel fettner has proven to have a great run of form in the first part of the race, where he found a large leap from 229.5m, but could not repeat itself. opposite race to Gregor Schlierenzauer, that after the difficulties of the first jump has found a second competitive jump.
Slovenia finished 4th, but positive signals have come from all four members of the quartet. Anze Lanisek was unlucky in the first round, having encountered strong wind behind, and landed very short. It redeemed himself later thanks to a good second jump over K. Jurij Tepes was exceptional in taking advantage of the high speed that is peeling off (almost 104 km / h) to make a jump that bordered on perfection from a stylistic point of view in second series, reaching 232.5m. Peter Prevc instead with two very good performance today (233m and 231m), brought to 35 the scoresheet jumps about 230m. Showcased the extraordinary quality from the aerodynamic point of view also the younger brother Domen, who today clocked his personal best with 226.5m.
Fifth place for Germany Karl Geiger, Richard Freitag, Markus Eisenbichler Wellinger and Andreas. This was definitely the best Teutonic, having carried out two executions remarkable by 245m and 242m. The first went to matching the German record previously held by Severin Freund. The Siegsdorf athlete was not great, despite having passed the 200m on both occasions. In the second, however, he has done an incredible number, as in the first phase of flight has found a strong cross-burst due to which it is broken down considerably. Despite the inconvenience was immediately taken up, going past the point K.
Japan (Ryoyu Kobayashi, Taku Takeuchi, Daiki Ito, Noriaki Kasai) finished 6th. Among the athletes of the Rising Sun has shone Ito, twice more than the HS, it measure also achieved by Kasai in the second half of the race. It followed the Czech Republic 7 ^ (Tomas Vancura, Jan Matura, Viktor Polasek, Roman Koudelka). The youngest of the lot has reached for the first time in his career the extent of 200m, making it the second best Czech behind the more experienced Koudelka.
The last team to reach the second series was Switzerland, dragged by one Simon Ammann increasingly convincing. The United States concluded in 9th position, for which should be noted the incredible jump of Casey Larson, landed at 216.5m. Finland has followed the 10th, where he distinct Antti Aalto, able to bring the K point in the race, after passing training.
For Russia 11 ^ only Alexey Romashov exceeded 200m. Last position for Italy, but playing handicap for David Bresadola did not appear in the starting pole. Roberto Dellasega and Sebastian Colloredo have struggled, while Alex Insam has found a discrete jump from 181m.
With today's competition will also update the rankings of the Raw Air, with Wellinger (1879.5) still in the lead, although Kraft (1873.3) has again closed the gap, taking just 6.2 lengths. The jolts further relate to the third position, in which it is brought Stoch (1806.0), followed by Stjernen (1805.7) just 3 tenths of a distance. Instead Eisenbichler slipped to 6th place, also passed by Peter Prevc.
TEAM EVENT - VIKERSUND HS 225
1. NORWAY (Tande, Johansson, Forfang, Stjernen) 983.1 2. POLAND (Zyla, Kubacki, Kot, Stoch) 986.7 3. AUSTRIA (Hayböck, Fettner, Schlierenzauer, Kraft) 999.7 4. SLOVENIA (Lanisek, Tepes, P. Prevc , Prevc D.) 868.7 5. GERMANY (Geiger, Freitag, Eisenbichler, Wellinger) 987.2 6. JAPAN (R. Kobayashi, Takeuchi, Ito, Kasai) 889.8 7. REP. CZECH (Vancura, Matura, Polasek, Koudelka) 843.7 8. SWITZERLAND (Deschwanden, Karlen, Peier, Ammann) 802.3
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