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.).
Lange leads German podium sweep in first COC event
Germany’s Jakob Lange continued his winning streak in Park City and lead teammates Simon Hüttel and Wendelin Thannheimer to a German podium sweep in Park City on Friday night.
After the morning’s ski jumping round had to be cancelled, the PCR was used, which put young American Niklas Malacinski into the lead with a 16-second head start on Austria’s Chistian Deuschl. Malacinski jumped 97 metres with excellent style marks. Deuschl landed at 101 metres and Simon Hüttel was third with 95.5 metes and a delay of 19 seconds at the start.