Nordic Skiing65. Vierschanzentournee
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The wait is over: it is definitely open the 65th edition of the Four Hills Tournee with the first competition held in Oberstdorf on Schattenbergschanze. As expected on the eve of the balance reigns supreme, with most of the favorites covered by less than 15 points. Among these is Stefan Kraft, winner today as two years ago, when it took home the ultimate success.
Friday 30 December 2016 8 minutes reading time
The twenty-three of Schwarzach im Pongau has built success in the first set, won by 4.3 lengths on Kamil Stoch, thanks to a benefit from 139 meters (2 over the HS) with an impeccable style. At the decisive moment it was not perfect in the first phase of flight, however, the exceptional aerodynamics allowed him anyway to save themselves from the return of Polish finally trailing by just 2.8 points.
The performances of the Olympic bicampione in office earned him the second best scores in both segments of the race as well as the final of honor. Stoch has achieved the best result in Poland in the opening of Vierschanzentournee before him Adam Malysz had obtained only a couple of third places between 2004 and 2006.
He completed the podium another Austrian, namely Michael Hayboeck. For him, the gap starts to be more full-bodied (11.8 lengths), accumulated nearly equally in the two heats compared to teammate. There are 3 consecutive podium finishes in Oberstdorf for the athlete of Upper Austria, once again ready to play his cards optic ultimate success, perhaps with a bit of luck more than in the past.
Who of luck they will be (negative) is Daniel Andre Tande, now in fourth place. A botched first jump in the dividend being relegated to the 9th provisional square at the end of the head-to-head. The usual prodigious comeback, topped by the best score of the second jump, enabled him to limit the damage. It goes without saying that the Norwegian struggle to find, with good consistency, performance at most of the potential flaw that could tell him bad in the long term.
Closed the top 5 another Rot-Weiß-Rot athlete, ie manuel fettner: the excellent form, the effectiveness of the best times and race in more favorable contexts he may allow it to be one of the leaders of this tour, but victory seems others deal.
Those who have much to complain about with himself is Markus Eisenbichler: a second not great jump did not go past the sixth. It is still the leader of the Teutonic team and the only one, of the latter, to still have a chance for ultimate success. The hope is that eyes bright with anger, shown as he left the landing area, they can be considered as such for the joy, perhaps as early as tomorrow in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Behind the German he has placed an unexpected trio of athletes: the new champion Polish Piotr Zyla took home the best result of the season, with the 7th place; Slovenian highest placed was a Prevc, incredibly Dinners (!), the best result in his career with the 8th square of town; 9 ^ currency for Jurij Tepes, finally with two consecutive jumps high quality.
The rest of Prevc family had an afternoon far more complicated: for Peter (10th) are encouraging signs of growth in optical crystal ball, but the gap accumulated by Kraft at the end of the first two jumps appears insurmountable (26.2 points); Domen (26 °) has already laid down their arms in the struggle for Tournee, given the 53.3 lengths that separate it from today's winner. The most worrying fact is the involution occurred technique from 10 days ago, and today, we'll see if it was only the pressure of such an important event, or if the best form has already been put on display.
Maciej Kot (12th) and Severin Freund (20th) are the other athletes already cut off from the positions that count for this edition of the Christmas competition as well as Noriaki Kasai, Roman Koudelka and Simon Ammann even out of the second set, 31 °, respectively and 37esimi tied.
We remember how there were no Italian athletes at the start, probably see them again in the stage of Innsbruck.
The ranking of the tour reflects in all respects today's competition, so Kraft is the leader followed by Stoch and Hayboeck.
In that of seen partially annul big margin Domen Prevc (545) World Cup accumulated after the races Engelberg: in second place we find more and Tande (432), followed by Kraft (431), Stoch (403) and Eisenbichler ( 309).
La Tournee never stops (!), So that tomorrow, in the afternoon, will stage the qualification of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, to draw the head-to-head in the New Year's race. The appointment is at 14.00.
Schattenbergschanze 1. KRAFT Stefan (AUT) 308.0 2. Kamil STOCH (POL) 305.2 3. HAYBÖCK Michael (AUT) 296.2 4. Daniel Andre Tande (NOR) 295.4 5. FETTNER Manuel (AUT) 294.9 6. Eisenbichler Markus (GER) 293.1 7. ZYLA Piotr (POL) 291.9 8. PREVC Dinners (SLO) 284.4 9. Jurij Tepes (SLO) 283.2 10. PREVC Peter (SLO) 281.8 Click here for complete results.
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