06th March 2015, 15:51 clock
Eric Frenzel won ahead despite spracher jump performance the overall World Cup
The celebrations of German combiner continue even after the World Cup in Falun. Olympic Champion Eric Frenzel has once again topped the Combined King and won on the third last individual race of the season prematurely for the third time overall World Cup. The 26-year-old Oberwiesenthaler handed a 23 place to retract the crystal ball. World Champion John Rydzek was the victory of the Japanese Akito Watabe second.
“I am very happy, it was just a great season. The World Cup victory is great recognition for it,” said Frenzel, who at the World Championships in Sweden was left without a single medal: “Actually, the World Cup was more than the World Cup my big goal for the season, now it’s running now only a difference but I realize that I run out of grain..”
Six wins in 15 days
The Saxons as missing in the Falun superior shape of January, when he won six races within 15 days. In Lahti he did not stand a chance to win the tank of the Dominators was visibly empty. At the finish Frenzel was 1:49 minutes behind Watabe, the Rydzek pointed at the finish sprint of 3.0 seconds for second place.
“On the home stretch was snow, I thought, I do not come from the spot” said Rydzek, who had brought in Falun gold on the normal hill and in a team. In Lahti succeeded Fabian Rießle (+8.9) and Third also the leap onto the podium – first career victory handed it to the Black Forest but again not
24 World Cup victories, meanwhile, has Frenzel on the account -. In seven the current season show the superiority of Team World Champion. “The Eric has today written story that will go down in the books,” said co-national coach Ronny Ackermann, the chief Hermann wine book represents in Finland
The restrained Frenzel was such an assessment almost uncomfortably. From me as a legend of the sport one can even speak when I hung the skis on the nail perhaps -. but before that I’ve sporty still a lot before “
The third winning the big crystal ball was a mere formality Frenzel. would have been able to make everything clear in the last race before the World Cup – but the beginning of February had been disqualified as the leader in Val di Fiemme after jumping because he had not closed the suit sleeve
Gruber not there. Schmid patzt
In Lahti, the site of the next world championships in 2017 could intercept the Saxons in theory nor in the Austrian Bernhard Gruber and the Norwegian Jan Schmid. World Champion Gruber was not a week after winning the title at the Start, Schmid playful every chance in 49th after the jump.
Frenzel is the fourth combiner since the introduction of the World Cup, which succeeded the hat trick. The Finn Hannu Manninen had from 2004 to 2007 even won four times in a row the World Cup, also managed the Japanese Kenji Ogiwara (1993-1995) and the Frenchman Jason Lamy Chappuis (2010-2012) the triple shock. Ackermann also took three times the big crystal ball, but not in series (2002, 2003, 2008).
On Saturday (10.00 Hop / 12.00 clock cross country) will take a team sprint in Lahti, the season finale increases with twin Competitions on Thursday in Trondheim and Oslo on Saturday.
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