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Johannes Rydzek continues winning streak at home
Local hero Johannes Rydzek has done it again. With 13 seconds to second-ranked Akito Watabe, he had time to celebrate his eighth triumph at his home venue of Oberstdorf. The third position went to Austria's Mario Seidl who finished 27.1 second later.
After Akito Watabe had amazed the audience with a great jump of 134.5 metres, the Japanese lead the field out of the start formation and was in the lead with 17 seconds on second-placed Mario Seidl who landed at 137 metres but did not set a proper telemark. Johannes Rydzek used his home advantage and set 129.5 metres which meant rank three and 44 seconds of time to make up on Watabe.
Olympic Champion Eric Frenzel also had a good jump which put him in fourth position, 48 seconds behind Watabe, closely followed by Bernhard Gruber (+0:51) and Yoshito Watabe (+0:55).
In the race, however, Frenzel was not able to show another great performance like his victory in Oberwiesenthal at the start of the Summer Grand Prix. Already after the first of six laps, he had to let go of the chasing group consisting of Rydzek and Gruber. He finally ended up on rank twelve. At the head of the field, Rydzek ultimately formed a duo with Watabe for the most part of the race while fellow Austrians Seidl and Gruber tried to catch up to the two leaders again. For Bernhard Gruber, the race was a tough one and he had to let go of his young teammate eventually, falling back to a final rank 13.
Rydzek proved to be unbeatable once more as he shook off Watabe on the last uphill and cruised to a confident victory. Mario Seidl defended his third position agains the charging Fabian Rießle who had improved his 19th position after the jumping event and finally finished just a little over ten seconds later than the young Austrian.
The rest of the Top Ten positions went to Ilkka Herola, Francois Braud, David Pommer, Maxime Laheurte, Philipp Orter and Tino Edelmann. The overall Summer Grand Prix Ranking will stay very exciting. Before the final competition (Sochi had to be cancelled due to a not sufficient number of teams entered), leader Johannes Rydzek is separated from pursuer Mario Seidl by only six points.
Source: fis-ski.com
After Akito Watabe had amazed the audience with a great jump of 134.5 metres, the Japanese lead the field out of the start formation and was in the lead with 17 seconds on second-placed Mario Seidl who landed at 137 metres but did not set a proper telemark. Johannes Rydzek used his home advantage and set 129.5 metres which meant rank three and 44 seconds of time to make up on Watabe.
Olympic Champion Eric Frenzel also had a good jump which put him in fourth position, 48 seconds behind Watabe, closely followed by Bernhard Gruber (+0:51) and Yoshito Watabe (+0:55).
In the race, however, Frenzel was not able to show another great performance like his victory in Oberwiesenthal at the start of the Summer Grand Prix. Already after the first of six laps, he had to let go of the chasing group consisting of Rydzek and Gruber. He finally ended up on rank twelve. At the head of the field, Rydzek ultimately formed a duo with Watabe for the most part of the race while fellow Austrians Seidl and Gruber tried to catch up to the two leaders again. For Bernhard Gruber, the race was a tough one and he had to let go of his young teammate eventually, falling back to a final rank 13.
Rydzek proved to be unbeatable once more as he shook off Watabe on the last uphill and cruised to a confident victory. Mario Seidl defended his third position agains the charging Fabian Rießle who had improved his 19th position after the jumping event and finally finished just a little over ten seconds later than the young Austrian.
The rest of the Top Ten positions went to Ilkka Herola, Francois Braud, David Pommer, Maxime Laheurte, Philipp Orter and Tino Edelmann. The overall Summer Grand Prix Ranking will stay very exciting. Before the final competition (Sochi had to be cancelled due to a not sufficient number of teams entered), leader Johannes Rydzek is separated from pursuer Mario Seidl by only six points.
Source: fis-ski.com
