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Are 4 victories in the season (and career) for Domen Prevc, beating off competition at the second race of the weekend in Engelberg, this afternoon. In general, the competition has been a leitmotif substantially different from that of yesterday, resulting in very spectacular jumps and characterizing all with a yellow linked to Daniel Andre Tande.
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On balance, the teenager came a great success, in fact, achieved the best score in both rounds: the first was found to jump in peak condition and has realized the landing pad record to 144 meters (4 beyond the point HS), even leaning telemark smoothly.
In the decisive one it has gone back over the hill size with a performance of 141.5 meters, starting from a lower pole than all rivals. So, for Prevc it is the third podium finish in four races in the Swiss resort in the maximum circuit.
Now open interesting horizons for seventeen Kranj: definitely part as the man to beat in the upcoming Four Hills Tournee, but wider view is in an excellent position in the fight against crystal ball, where the races flight will be decisive.
Second place for the now found Kamil Stoch, very good at exploiting the calm conditions in both series, always landing beyond the HS. However detachment from Slovenian is important, ie 12.1 lengths. In turn, however, it is imposed with more than 10 points on the third ranked.
The latter is Stefan Kraft, still at high levels, but constantly linked to less noble positions of the podium for him have only four wins from 22 individual podiums in the World Cup. It must be said that athletes who finished in the top 3 are those who have found the best ever conditions.
Manuel fettner occupied the fourth position overall after a good comeback from eleventh temporary square. Surprising are the improvements that continues to show from time to time, the stronger the wind behind you and stubborn in maintaining a good speed throughout the performance.
Just behind it was placed Markus Eisenbichler, now for a few weeks the movement of the Teutonic leaders. The top 10 we find two other athletes of the German team: Richard Freitag has achieved the best result of the season with the 7th place, while Severin Freund showed a growing condition than the last few weeks and ended 9th, tied with Piotr Zyla, in turn to better ranking dall'opening Ruka today.
Michael Hayboeck (6 °) may be considered as one of the most disappointed of the day. In fact, yesterday's victory was not confirmed, accomplices also the similar wind conditions to rivals, so everything returns to normal. The hero of the day is Vojtech Stursa (8 °), the second top 10 seasonal and now the top athlete of the Czech movement, the latter in great difficulty with the other jumpers.
We come to the yellow of the day, brought a dowry by the Norwegian Tande: concluded the first series in the wake Prevc and has potentially been the athlete to beat again until landing of the second run, which occurred at 144.5 meters.
The tried telemark made him lose his balance and a repeated touch with your hands on the snow, before the fall line, caused him to receive very low evaluations by the judges. The latter probably have judged the fallen jump, but this was not!
With the right stylistic points, the Norwegian would be found to fight for the third step of the podium (and not in 11th place finish) and would not have lost so many points behind the leader in the overall standings. It is amazing to note how he threw out yet another victory at hand. We'll see if it will have any regrets when you pull the money at the end of the season.
The crisis of Peter Prevc continues even today was the worst among the three brothers and missed out on points (33 °), almost a historical event. It was actually from March 7, 2014 that had not happened this fact, at the Trondheim competition.
The general classification sees Domen Prevc getaway with 540 points, followed always by Tande (382) and Kraft (331), Stoch (323) and Freund (288). The list of prequalified not changed from the race yesterday, crucial for the next period seasonal strategies.
Now the male jumping World Cup will take a weekend break, to return to full capacity in 10 days with the opening of the sixty-fifth Four Hills Tournee at Oberstdorf. It will begin Wednesday, December 28 with the qualification to the race the following day.
ENGELBERG II - HS 140
1. PREVC Domen (SLO) 305.9 2. Kamil STOCH (POL) 293.8 3. KRAFT Stefan (AUT) 283.1 4. FETTNER Manuel (AUT) 278.4 5. Eisenbichler Markus (GER) 277.6 6. HAYBOECK Michael (AUT) 276.7 7. Richard Freitag (GER) 275.4 8. Å tursa Vojtech (CZE) 274.7 9. ZYLA Piotr (POL) 274.4 9. FREUND Severin (GER) 274.4
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An overflowing Domen Prevc is imposed in the second race of Engelberg
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