Eva Pinkelnig named to Austrian team for Rasnov
Eva Pinkelnig
Good news from the Austrian ski jumping team: 32-year-old Eva Pinkelnig, who suffered a splenic rupture in a crash in training last December, will compete in the World Cup in Rasnov (ROU).
Women s individual competitions will be held on Rasnov on Thursday and Friday, a men s individual competition will take place on Friday, followed by a mixed team event on Saturday. While the Austrian men s top team with Stefan Kraft, Daniel Huber, Michael Hayboeck, Philipp Aschenwald, and Jan Hörl will not travel to Rasnov and train for the upcoming World Championships in Oberstdorf (GER) instead, Austrian women s head coach Harald Rodlauer named his best athletes to the team for Rasnov.
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Niklas Bachlinger and Thea Minyan Bjoerseth are Junior World Champions
David Haagen, Niklas Bachlinger, Dominik Peter
Niklas Bachlinger of Austria and Thea Minyan Bjoerseth of Norway claimed the indivdiual Ski Jumping titles at the Junior World Championships in Lahti (FIN) on Thursday.
The 19-year-old Niklas Bachlinger, who made his World Cup debut in late January in Willingen, won the gold medal in his first Junior World Championships with jumps of 96 m and 95.5 m that earned him a total of 263.9 points.
Only 0.6 points behind the winner, David Haagen came in second with 96 m and 95.5 m and 263.3 points and so silver also went to a ski jumper from Austria. Switzerland s Dominik Peter was in the lead after the first round, just ahead of Bachlinger, with his 97.5 m jump. In the end, the 19-year-old won the bronze medal with a final jump of 95 m and 261.5 points.
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Due to the bad weather forecast for Sunday, the schedule of the Continental Cup in Innsbruck (AUT) was changed and both competitions there were already held on Saturday.
The first competition was won by Aleksander Zniszczol of Poland with 128 m and 127 m and a total of 259.5 points. This was already the eighth win in the Continental Cup for the 26-year-old.
The second place went to Norway s Anders Haare, with jumps of 126.5 m and 125.5 m that earned him 248.5 points. The leader after the first round, local hero Niklas Bachlinger, came in third with 129.5 m and 125 m and 246.8 points. It was his first podium in only his sixth COC competition.