COC-M: Next victory for Wolfgang Loitzl
The 32-year-old Austrian celebrated his third win in a row with jumps on 128.5 m and 132.5 m and a total of 251.3 points. Loitzl, who wants to secure his place on the Austrian team for the World Cup opening with a Top 3 result in the overall ranking of the COC, is on the right track to achieving this goal after this very successful weekend in Tchaikowski.
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Local hero Denis Kornilov was in the lead after the first round with a very good 130.5 m jump, his 126.5 m in the final where then enough for the Russian to finish second, his best result so far this summer.
Karl Geiger of Germany showed the longest jump of the day with 133.5 m in the second round and with this great performance he moved up from sixth to third. This was the first ever podium result in the COC for the 19-year-old of Oberstdorf.
Jan Matura of the Czech Republic was fourth and missed the Top 3 by only 0.3 points. Jan Ziobro was the best of the Polish team as fifth, followed by Germany's Stephan Leyhe (6th).
Alexey Romashov (RUS), second in Saturday's competition, was seventh this time. Best Slovene was the only 16-year-old Cene Prevc as eighth.
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The two Austrians David Zauner (9th) and Lukas Mueller (10th) completed the Top 10 on Sunday.
Before the final two competitions of this summer's COC series next weekend in Klingenthal (GER), Jan Matura (632 points) has a lead of 152 points ahead of Wolfgang Loitzl in the overall ranking. Anders Jacobsen, who was not competing in Tchaikowski, is third.
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