Peter Prevc, the champion of Sapporo

Peter Prevc, the champion of Sapporo

28/01/2014 11:53

Today’s competition in Sapporo doesn’t have only one winner – the winners are all Slovenians, because today’s competition belonged to all of them. Peter Prevc on the first place, Jernej Damjan was the second one, Robert Kranjec was fourth, Nejc Dezman seventh, Tomaz Naglic twelfth… Goran Janus, the head coach, must be celebrating right now.

When the elites are absent, Peter Prevc must have known that he is the favorite of this competition. He grabbed the opportunity and squeezed it. The results are obvious – he jumped 137 and 134,5 meters and became the champion of the Okurayama hill. Pretty satisfied must be Jernej Damjan, too. He reached the second place for the jumps 135,5 and 129 meters long. Fans under the hill cheered the veteran Noriaki Kasai and his performance was 132,5 and 129 meters.

The next one was Robert Kranjec – “King Robi” jumped 128 and 132,5 meters. Fifth place belongs to Daiki Ito – his jumps were two times 127,5 meters. The only successful Austrian was Andreas Kofler (132m and 122m) on the sixth place. The last Slovenian in TOP 10 is the seventh Nejc Dezman (137 and 120,5m) – this was the competition of his life. We have three jumpers from two nations on the eight position: Michael Neumayer (130m and 126,5m) and Markus Eisenbichler (134m and 127m) from Germany and Czech Jan Matura (127,5 and 125,5 meters).

• Jiri Jindra.