Stefan Kraft wins one-round competition in Wisla, Freund on the podium again
- ski-jumping-italy
- Jan 15, 2015
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Stefan Kraft wins one-round competition in Wisla, Freund on the podium again
Today's podium in Wisla looked a lot like the last that we've seen in Bad Mitterndorf last weekend.
This time, Stefan Kraft was the superior jumper with a performance of 129.5m (136.7pts), while Severin Freund became third with a jump of 129.5m (131.3pts). Also this time a Slovenian completed the podium, with Peter Prevc grabbing the second place (131.5m/134.5pts).
The first round of the competition can be called fair. The conditions changed in the allowed frame only, although when they did, the wind changed its direction fast and completely and made a second round impossible. But as our expert Gorm Johansson puts it: The best were on the podium today.
They were followed by Michael Hayböck (131m), Rune Velta (128m) and Markus Eisenbichler (131.5m). The latter can be expecially happy about this ranking, as he again struggled to even make it through the qualification. But let's not forget that this is his first season, so he must learn to keep his power for a long and hard period and no one can expect top ten finishes only as this would push an unbearable pressure on this young German's shoulders.
The top ten list was completed by Jernej Damjan (7th), Anders Jacobsen, who showed the longest jump with 134m, Richard Freitag and Noriaki Kasai (131m), which is more or less the „usual suspects“.
However, nice to see was Johann A. Forfang's jump of 132m. He became 14th, while Kamil Stoch was able to reach the following place with 121.5m- that's what the wind means. Anyway, Stoch was the best Pole of the day, followed by Dawid Kubacki on rank 16, Aleksander Zniszczol as 21st, Klemens Muranka as 22nd and Jan Ziobro on place 23. Stefan Hula was 27th, while local hero Piotr Zyla barely made it into the points on the 29th place. Nejc Dezman, who was sailing well in the qualification came in as 24th, while Tom Hilde grabbed rank 26 in his World-Cup-comeback. On the other hand, his teammate Daniel Andre Tande (46th) has to improve before he has to leave the World-Cup towards the COC. Also Gregor Schlierenzauer, qualification winner Maciej Kot, Robert Kranjec, Thomas Diethart, Stephan Leyhe and Dimitry Vassiliev missed to enter the top 30.
They will all get another chance tomorrow as the circus already travels to Zakopane to be ready for tomorrow's qualification!
And last but not least: SkiJumpingItaly is also proud to mention that Federico Cecon qualified for today's race. He can hopefully feed on this experience and show this again tomorrow.
-by Peggy Kierstan
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