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Magnus Moan hearts Ramsau am Dachstein
The first winner of the Ramsau-weekend is Magnus Moan from Norway. He ended his race in a finish sprint, just miliseconds ahead of second-placed teammate Magnus Krog. The podium was completed by jumping winner Jarl Riiber, who took his first podium result in a 10 kilometre condition in the World Cup in a finish line sprint against Tino Edelmann from Germany, making today a triple win for the Norwegian team.
Bouncing back after his crash in Lillehammer, 18-year-old Jarl Riiber dominated the jumping round on Ramsau’s HS 98 jumping hill with a great jump of 95.5 metres, the longest jump of the day. After a coach request, Riiber even had one gate less in the inrun than the rest of the field. A total of 131 points put him 37 seconds ahead of runner-up Akito Watabe from Japan, a time difference quite unusual for Ramsau.
Behind Riiber, the main part of the field was packed tightly together. First of the pursuers was Akito Watabe with a point total of 121.8 points after a 92.5 metre-jump. Eric Frenzel found back to old jumping strength with 92 metres and followed Riiber 50 seconds later.
The stronger jumpers Portyk, Klemetsen and Faißt occupied ranks four five and six. The first stronger skiers were Bernhard Gruber on rank nine with one minute and nine seconds to make up and yellow-bib-bearer Fabian Rießle on eleven with +1:11.
The race was an action-packed affair, as usual in Ramsau am Dachstein. Leader Jarl Riiber defended his lead well into the third lap until pursuers Akito Watabe and Eric Frenzel and shortly after also a really big pursuing group containing Magnus Moan and Krog, Jørgen Graabak, Tino Edelmann, Fabian Rießle and Ilkka Herola caught up with the young Norwegian.
An exciting last lap of a tight race that saw a number of smaller and almost-crashes had a group of ten athletes fighting for the podium races. An attack on the last uphill brought Magnus Moan and namesake Magnus Krog to the fore but also Jarl Riiber fought his way to the front of the group again and was able to match the pace of the leaders.
Multiple finish line sprints decided the positions: Magnus Moan beat out Magnus Krog by about 2 centimetres and Jarl Riiber edged out new dad Tino Edelmann, who had a great result as fourth after his World Cup break in the first weeks of December, to finish on the podium in a 10-kilometre World Cup race for the first time in his career.
Bouncing back after his crash in Lillehammer, 18-year-old Jarl Riiber dominated the jumping round on Ramsau’s HS 98 jumping hill with a great jump of 95.5 metres, the longest jump of the day. After a coach request, Riiber even had one gate less in the inrun than the rest of the field. A total of 131 points put him 37 seconds ahead of runner-up Akito Watabe from Japan, a time difference quite unusual for Ramsau.
Behind Riiber, the main part of the field was packed tightly together. First of the pursuers was Akito Watabe with a point total of 121.8 points after a 92.5 metre-jump. Eric Frenzel found back to old jumping strength with 92 metres and followed Riiber 50 seconds later.
The stronger jumpers Portyk, Klemetsen and Faißt occupied ranks four five and six. The first stronger skiers were Bernhard Gruber on rank nine with one minute and nine seconds to make up and yellow-bib-bearer Fabian Rießle on eleven with +1:11.
The race was an action-packed affair, as usual in Ramsau am Dachstein. Leader Jarl Riiber defended his lead well into the third lap until pursuers Akito Watabe and Eric Frenzel and shortly after also a really big pursuing group containing Magnus Moan and Krog, Jørgen Graabak, Tino Edelmann, Fabian Rießle and Ilkka Herola caught up with the young Norwegian.
An exciting last lap of a tight race that saw a number of smaller and almost-crashes had a group of ten athletes fighting for the podium races. An attack on the last uphill brought Magnus Moan and namesake Magnus Krog to the fore but also Jarl Riiber fought his way to the front of the group again and was able to match the pace of the leaders.
Multiple finish line sprints decided the positions: Magnus Moan beat out Magnus Krog by about 2 centimetres and Jarl Riiber edged out new dad Tino Edelmann, who had a great result as fourth after his World Cup break in the first weeks of December, to finish on the podium in a 10-kilometre World Cup race for the first time in his career.
Source: fis-ski.com
