Simen Tiller wins first Continental Cup event in Klingenthal
Klingenthal presented itself as a perfect winter wonderland on the first day of the Continental Cup weekend, if only there had been no wind. After one trial round and the Provisional Competition Round on Friday morning, the competition round for the Individual Gundersen 5km had to be interrupted over and over again until the jury decided that jumping wasn’t possible anymore and PCR had to be used.
Norway’s Simen Tiller was the lucky jumping round winner with a jump to 139.0m (137.5p.), which brought him an advantage of 26 seconds ahead of his teammate Espen Andersen (133.0m, 131.0p.) and Austria’s Christian Deuschl (130.0m, 131.0p.). Fourth place after jumping went to Austria’s Philipp Orter (134.0m, 130.1p.), fifth was Szczepan Kupczak (132.5m, 126.4p.), on rank six followed Lars Ivar Skaarset (133.0m, 125.4p.).