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Bardal wins at Kulm - Schlierenzauer disqualified

opprettet på: 17.01.2012 18:13 / km

Only two hours after Robert Kranjec's win, the second competition of this "Super-Skiflying-Day" started at the Kulm skiflying hill in Bad Mitterndorf in front of an impressive amount of spectators. This time, the top spot on the podium went to Anders Bardal (364.9) after two jumps of 197.5 and 183.5 meters. Bardal was followed by Daiki Ito (363.3) from Japan and Kamil Stoch from poland (358.2).

 

While the first competition round was only stopped by a few minor wind breaks, the athletes didn't really have the chance to achieve top jumps in the second round because of a continuoulsy blowing tail wind. Immediately before his jump, Gregor Schlierenzauer faced dramatic moments because the zipper of his suit broke. After the suit was repaired with safety pins and duct tape, Schlierenzauer showed an enormous strenght of will and was able to land a long jump which could have meant the victory. But according to the official rules, the zipper of a suit has to be fully closed and so, Sepp Gratzer from the FIS equipment control hat to disqualify Schlierenzauer.

 

Bardal beats tail wind

Anders Bardal

 

As one of the few athletes who managed to show a good jump even though the conditions were very difficult, Anders Bardal was rewarded with the win. After the first round, Daiki Ito from Japan was in the lead with the round's longest jump of 209 meters but wasn't able to show another equally good jump in the second round. Nevertheless, he finished the competition on the second rank. In addition to Kamil Stoch on the third place, Robert Kranjec and Roman Koudelka also managed to show off their flying skills and were rewarded with good positions in the overall ranking.

 

Thomas Morgenstern was able to improve his result in the second round and climb seven positions up. Known skiflyer Martin Koch showed an impressive jump in the first round but had to concede defeat to the tailwind as so many other jumpers before him, too. His teammate Andreas Kofler defended his overall World Cup lead in spite of a weaker performance today.

 

Freitag with improved performance

 

The German team showed itself to be in a better shape than in the previous competition this morning. After a long period in the leader box for Richard Freitag in the first round, he was also one of the jumpers who couldn't fight the tail wind in the second round. Severin Freund was the best German on rank nine in the overall result.

 

Complete results as pdf-file

 

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