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Thomas Morgenstern wins the first competition in Titisee-Neustadt

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Dec 14, 2013
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Thomas Morgenstern wins the first competition in Titisee-Neustadt

14/12/2013 20:30

(Thomas Morgenstern) SkiJumpingItaly 2013 - (c) Kathrin Müller The Austrian Thomas Morgenstern is the winner of the first out of two competitions on this weekend in Titisee-Neustadt in the Black Forest, Germany. He won ahead of yesterday’s qualification winner Kamil Stoch from Poland and the Swiss Simon Ammann.

For Thomas Morgenstern it really was worth the journey to Titisee-Neustadt in the German Black Forest. The likable Austrian won Saturday’s competition on the Hochfirstschanze (HS 142) which was his first world cup victory after almost two full years. With jumps on 143.5 and 139.0 meters (284.1 points) he won ahead of yesterday’s qualification winner Kamil Stoch (137.0 and 141.5 meters, 280.8 points). Third became the Swiss Simon Ammann who showed very good jumps on 144.0 and 138.0 (277.6 points). In the end there were only 6.5 points between him and the victory. The fourth place was taken by Morgenstern’s teammate Gregor Schlierenzauer who had to fight for a good result after his 15th rank in the first round (135.5 and 144.0 meters, 271.8 points).

(Simon Ammann) SkiJumpingItaly 2013 - (c) Kathrin Müller

German team with bad luck

In spite of a very good power density in the German team, none of the athletes managed to reach the podium – against all expectations. The chef coach Werner Schuster had to be satisfied with the Top 10 results by Severin Freund (rank 5, 144.0 and 137.5 meters) and the returnee of the last weekend Richard Freitag (rank 9, 137.5 and 137.0 meters).

The places 15 and 16 were taken by Marinus Kraus (131.5 and 137.0 meters, 260.6 points) and Michael Neumayer (134.0 and 135.0 meters, 258.3 points). Andreas Wank won’t be too happy either with his result. He was in trouble with the partly difficult wind conditions and finished 23rd (126.5 and 131.5 meters, 251.8 points). The last German in the second round was Karl Geiger from Oberstdorf who became 29th with 237.1 points.

Even worse it came for the 18-year-old Andreas Wellinger. He had very bad luck with the changing wind conditions and had an early landing at only 117.5 meters which meant the last place and no second round for him.

Three Japanese in the Top 11

Once again the Japanese team had a strong team performance. Best Japanese on rank 6 became the 41-year-old Noriaki Kasai who jumped on 142.0 and 133.0 meters (269.5 points). Only two places behind, on the 8thrank, Daiki Ito finished the competition (137.5 and 140.0 meters, 267.8 points). Taku Takeuchi (133.0 and 140.0 meters, 265.2 points) missed a place in the Top 10 only by 1.4 points.

Norway out of shape

Also for the Norwegians it’s not working well at the moment and the team has to face another disappointing result. Only two out of the five qualified athletes reached the second round. Anders Bardal managed with jumps on 139.0 and 134.0 meters (266.6 points) to finish on rank 10. Less successful the first competition of the weekend ended for Rune Velta who only became 28th (237.4 points).

The Saturday found an early ending for the rest of team Norway consisting of Anders Fannemel (31st), Anders Jacobsen (34th) and Ole Marius Ingvaldsen (36th).

Setback for Davide Bresadola

Similar to the Norwegians, the weekend went for the Italians so far. After Sebastian Colloredo couldn’t qualify for the competition yesterday, today also Roberto Dellasega and Davide Bresadola had disappointing results today. Both didn’t make it to the second round and finished 40th and 41st. Especially, for Bresadola this is a real setback after he had his best career result (rank 13) last weekend in Lillehammer.

Comment of the day by Davide Bresadola about his best result in his career so far:

"I only want to say that I am happy for that and very pround because of all the people, who congratulated me! It's the best thing to jump far! I love it!

It's only the start of the winter and step by step we are working hard - but i hope always white a smile!"

The strong power density on the top of the worldcup let’s us hope for very exciting competitions tomorrow and next week in Engelberg, Switzerland. But also with the returnee from Finland Janne Ahonen who’s getting better from jump to jump we can look forward to some more amazing world cups, especially during the Four Hill Tournament in two weeks.

Results Top Ten – Individual Competition, Large Hill Titisee-Neustadt: