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COC-M: Winning streak of Loitzl continues

opprettet på: 14.03.2012 10:41 / km

The final two competition of the Continental Cup this winter are taking place in Kuopio (FIN) this weekend.

 

The first event on Saturday was won by Wolfgang Loitzl of Austria. The former 4-Hills-Tournament winner was only 13th after the first round with 108.5 m and captured his third victory in a row with the longest jump of the day on 127.5 m in the final round (222.3 points).

 

Wolfgang Loitzl in the Hall of Fame »

 

The second place went to Loitzl's teammate Manuel Poppinger with two consistent jumps on 118 m and 116 m (216.7 points).

 

Norway's Vegard Swensen, eleventh at half time, could move up to the third spot on the podium with 120 m in the second round (208.7 points).

 

Only 15-year-old Slovene Anze Lanisek, who won the Gold medal at the Youth Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck in January, was fourth.

 

Kenneth Gangnes of Norway came in fifth, followed by the next Austrian, Stefan Kraft, and the best of the hosting team, Janne Happonen.

 

Andraz Pograjc could showed the biggest improvement in the second round. The Slovene moved up from 30th to eighth with 123.5 m.

 

Czech Borek Sedlak was in the lead after the first jump, but with only 98 m in the second he finished only 13th overall.

 

Before the final on Sunday, Norwegian Andreas Stjernen already clinched the overall victory of the Continental Cup 2011/12 with 1017 points. Second is Michael Hayboeck with 834 points, ahead of Kenneth Gangnes (819 points).

 

Complete resutls from Kuopio »

Complete results as pdf-file

 

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