Harrachov brought history: Schlierenzauer wins again - first podium for Jurij Tepeš
- ski-jumping-italy
- Feb 3, 2013
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Harrachov brought history: Schlierenzauer wins again - first podium for Jurij Tepeš
03/02/2013 21:11
(Gregor Schlierenzauer) Photo credits Consuelo Conte © Skijumpingitaly It was a full day of ski-jumping in Harrachov. After the cancellation of yesterday’s competition due to the stormy wind conditions, the race has been postponed to this morning at 9.00. For all of you, who missed it: Here’s our live from the scene report: Harrachov for the first.
Shortly after the furious win of Austria’s first class eagle Schlierenzauer, the next competition already took place at 14.00. Without a qualification round, all 51 athletes were starting the first round that turned out to be the only round of the afternoon. Due to upcoming wind and some waiting breaks for the jumpers, the jury decided to let the first round count.
The lucky winner has been Gregor Schlierenzauer again. This time he performed 197.5m (191.8points) in a difficult competition, where we couldn’t see a single flight in the 200s. Czech’s answer came with Jan Matura and his 194.5m performance (187.2points). This brought him the second place and made his home crowd happy. 23-years old Slovenian Jurij Tepeš, who could have broken the hill record this morning but couldn’t stand his 220m flight, reached the podium for the first time in his career for an individual competition (193.5m; 186.1points)! Congrats for this performance!
His teammate Robert Kranjec finished this race on the fourth rank (194m; 183.3points). Best Norwegian was Andreas Stjernen, who missed the podium again but showed a solid 190m-try (176.2points). Simon Ammann could improve but ended up on place six (183.5m), while Wolfgang Loitzl, who is always in the top fifteen but without much attention because of Schlierenzauer, jumped on the place behind him.
Italian story of the day is Sebastian Colloredo’s amazing jump, which got him the lead for a pretty long while. He finished this competition on the tenth rank. We are proud of you!
Although he had to let Stoch and Koch go by, Colloredo was able to leave athletes like Jaka Hvala (11th), Michael Neumayer (14th) and Peter Prevc (20th) behind. His colleague Davide Bresadola gained the 26th place and also Peter Frenette got World-Cup points for rank No.27. Well done, boys!
Cestmir Kozisek and Antonin Hajek were able to convince again as well as did Roman Koudelka, who could land as 18th. The ski-flying overall displays Gregor Schlierenzauer as the new leader with 360 points. Robert Kranjec is second now (290). After a gap of 96points follows Simon Ammann, Jan Matura, Andreas Stjernen and also Michael Neumayer are close up to him.
That was the ski-flying event in Harrachov, ladies and gentlemen! Stay tuned for tons of nice pictures and some other new things before we jump into the FIS-team tour starting next weekend!
By Peggy Kierstan (@pikayartist)
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