The World Championships in Val Di Fiemme

The World Championships in Val Di Fiemme: Tom Hilde won the qualification for Saturday’s competition on the normal hill

23/02/2013 14:24

Photo credits Kathrin Müller © Skijumpingitaly The 26-years old Norwegian jumped 103.0m and earned 121.3 points. It was enough to beat 2nd Taku Takeuchi and his own teammate Andreas Stjernen, who took the 3rd place. They both jumped 102.5m. It is the debut of 24-years old Stjernen in a World Championship and he has a big chance to take a good place in the competition. He continues his run of luck and showed that he is great also on the normal hills. The Italian jumpers have been showing good jumps on their home hill. The best in the quali was 11th Sebastian Colloredo. Andrea Morassi took the 20th place ex aequo with Czech jumper Lukas Hvala. The last host who got qualified is 34th Davide Bresadola. Unfortunately at the competition we won’t see Roberto Dellasega who was 42nd. The ski-jumpers from Poland showed that they are in really great shape. All athletes of head-coach Łukasz Kruczek were in top 10. Kamil Stoch who didn’t need to qualify also jumped well. It seems that they have a chance to fight for the medals - individual and also in the team.

In the qualification we could also see Thomas Morgenstern, who came back on the hill after his break for when he trained individually. The 27-years old Austrian will try to defend his title won two years ago in Oslo but with his actual jumps it will be difficult. He took the 19th place. The best jumper from team Austria was 7th Manuel Fettner ahead of Wolfgang Loitzl. The big, positive surprise was that the only ski jumper from Greece got qualified for the first round. Young Nico Polychronidis took the 39th placeafter a good jump, so he will be able to make his debut at the WSC.

SkiJumpingItaly 2013 - (c) Peggy Kierstan

The best jump from the pre-qualified was shown by Simon Ammann. He jumped 102.5m and proved that he can win a medal in the competition. The athletes who don't needed to qualify jumped from 10th gate. The whole rest from gate eleven.

Complete results of the qualification:

1. Tom Hilde NOR 103.0m -> 121.3 2. Taku Takeuchi JPN 102.5m -> 120.7 3. Andreas Stjernen NOR 102.5m -> 119.8 4. Andreas Wank GER 100.5m -> 117.7 5. Dawid Kubacki POL 99.5m -> 117.4 6. Maciej Kot POL 101.5m -> 117.1 7. Manuel Fettner AUT 100.0m -> 116.4 8. Wolfgang Loitzl AUT 99.0m -> 115.0 9. Daiki Ito JPN 100.5m -> 114.4 10. Piotr Żyła POL 100.5m -> 114.3 11. Sebastian Colloredo ITA 98.5m -> 113.2 12. Dimitry Vassiliev RUS 100.0m -> 113.1 12. Yuta Watase JPN 100.0m -> 113.1 14. Vladimir Zografski BUL 97.5m -> 112.1 15. Jakub Janda CZE 98.0m -> 111.5 16. Kaarel Nurmsalu EST 95.5m -> 111.3 17. Michael Neumayer GER 98.5m -> 110.8 18. Noriaki Kasai JPN 97.5m -> 110.7 19. Thomas Morgenstern AUT 98.5m -> 110.6 20. Lukas Hlava CZE 96.0m -> 107.7 20. Andrea Morassi ITA 96.0m -> 107.7 22. Jaka Hvala SLO 96.0m -> 107.5 23. Alexey Romashov RUS 96.5m -> 107.1 24. Stefan Kraft AUT 94.5m -> 106.8 25. Vincent Descombes Sevoie FRA 95.5m -> 106.2 26. Martti Nomme EST 93.5m -> 103.8 27. Matjaz Pungertar SLO 93.5m -> 102.7 28. Roman Koudelka CZE 92.5m -> 101.7 29. Gregor Deschwanden SUI 95.5m -> 101.3 30. Anssi Koivuranta FIN 93.0m -> 101.0 31. Anders Johnson USA 92.5m -> 100.1 32. Ville Larinto FIN 91.5m -> 98.8 33. Ilja Rosliakov RUS 92.5m -> 97.6 34. Davide Bresadola ITA 89.5m -> 95.4 35. Sami Heiskanen FIN 88.5m -> 93.5 36. Ronan Lamy Chappuis FRA 88.5m -> 93.2 37. Lauri Asikainen FIN 89.0m -> 91.2 37. Alexey Korolev KAZ 88.5m -> 91.2 39. Nico Polychronidis GRE 87.0m -> 90.4 40. Radik Zhaparov KAZ 87.5m -> 90.3

The results of pre-qualified jumpers:

56. Simon Ammann SUI 102.5m 57. Peter Prevc SLO 96.0m 58. Jan Matura CZE 100.5m 59. Richard Freitag GER 95.5m 60. Robert Kranjec SLO 96.0m 61. Kamil Stoch POL 99.5m 62. Severin Freund GER 99.0m 63. Anders Jacobsen NOR 96.5m 64. Anders Bardal NOR --- 65. Gregor Schlierenzauer AUT 98.5m

The competition on the normal hill starts at 17:00 (CET)

• By Sylwia Wenecka (@SylwiaaWu)

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