Nordic SkiingMen jump - Oslo
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In today's afternoon sull'Holmenkollbakken Oslo was staged an individual competition appears a keystone optic crystal ball. In fact, to win success was Stefan Kraft, while the rival Kamil Stoch did not go beyond the 22 th position. The Austrian thus became the new yellow bib and also strengthens its leadership in the Raw Air.
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The Salzburg in the first half of the race has found a good jump of 130m, but managed to stay close to the excellent Andreas Wellinger, came to 133.5m, due to better assessments of the judges and a more favorable compensation for the wind.
In the decisive series Kraft has performed in an exemplary manner, working very well on speed taken out of the tooth and landing at 132m with a sublime telemark, and was rewarded by the judges with high valuations. On the other hand the Teutonic has not done all the best, managing to reach only 127m.
For the athlete of Schwarzach im Pongau is so came the 7th victory of the season in top-level competitions, while the German had to settle for the umpteenth time this season the place of honor, ultimately trailing by 8.9 lengths.
The podium has mirrored that obtained in the normal hill race on the World Cup, then in 3 ^ square stood Markus Eisenbichler. As in Lahti on Teutonic he has reassembled starting from the 6th position of the first set, thanks to a convincing performance from 128.5m.
Fourth just six tenths off the podium Daiki Ito, now very competitive. After a remarkable first jump 127.5m which had placed him in third place, the Japanese lost one position in the decisive round, picking still a good performance from 124.5m, earned the best result of the season for an athlete of the rising sun.
Norway hostess occupied the places from 5th to 7th, with Andreas Stjernen, Robert Johansson and Daniel Andre Tande. The first two have relied on their great lift during flight to achieve two solid performances. Instead the younger Scandinavian enjoyed in the first half of the race, where he had reached 128.5m, while the second has struggled more.
Good 8th place for manuel fettner, which preceded the Polish Piotr Zyla 9th. The top 10 was closed by Johann Andre Forfang, author of a great comeback in the decisive round. The Norwegian had in fact ended 26 ° the first part of the race because of a difficult jump, both for having the wrong time of detachment, both for complex wind conditions. He then redeemed with a high-level performance, touching the 129.5m.
Maciej Kot finished 11th, with a race conduct similar to that of Forfang, going to recover 14 positions in the second half of the race, after washing the first jump. Have fallen short of expectations, after the encouraging performance in the team event yesterday, Michael Hayböck and Peter Prevc respectively 15 ° and 16 °.
Excellent 21st place for the newcomer Joakim Aune, who found space in the main circuit due to the national contingent deployed by Norway in Oslo. Scandinavian has taken the luxury of overtaking Kamil Stoch 22 °. The Pole has plummeted in the standings after the 5th position of the first round, due to a disastrous second jump. At that juncture he had huge problems with the wind, going to lean on a step in fact non-existent and having flailing his arms to avoid tipping over in flight. The athlete of Zakopane is so landed just 114.5m, also collecting bad stylistic assessments.
As for Italy, Sebastian Colloredo was able to enter the second round, going to pick up a point with the 30th position. The Tarvisio has made a good first jump, while in the second it was very unfortunate indeed finding the wind behind. Insam Alex and David Bresadola instead amounted respectively 44 ° and 50 °, finding two jumps difficult because of very complex weather conditions.
The ranking of the Raw Air still is headed Kraft, stretching powerfully rising to 671.8 points. Now the closest pursuer became Wellinger (651.3), detached but more than 20 lengths, while in third place was taken Eisenbichler (622.3), with a lead of almost 50 points from the top.
As anticipated, now the overall standings of the World Cup has a new leader, with Kraft (1320) that exceeded Stoch (1289) and now has a lead 31 lengths. Third place, however, remains in the hands of Tande (1155), now followed by Wellinger (928).
The Air Raw provides a tight schedule without a break for 10 days, therefore, already tomorrow will characterize Lillehammer stage, due to start at 17:30.
OSLO HOLMENKOLLEN - HS 134
1. KRAFT Stefan (AUT) 267.5
2. Wellinger Andreas (GER) 258.6
3. Eisenbichler Markus (GER) 244.1
4. ITO Daiki (JPN) 243.5
5. Andreas Stjernen (NOR) 241.7
6. Robert JOHANSSON (NOR) 239.5
7. Daniel Andre Tande (NOR) 236.8
8. FETTNER Manuel (AUT) 227.7
9. ZYLA Piotr (POL) 227.2
10. Forfang Johann Andre (NOR) 224.6
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