Lamparter wins Gundersen in Klingenthal

Johannes Lamparter is the winner of the first Individual Gundersen in Klingenthal (GER), beating Kristjan Ilves (EST) and Ryota Yamamoto (JPN) in a tight finish sprint.

Ilves was in the lead after the Ski Jumping round on the Vogtland Arena HS140 today.

The Estonian showed a jump on Hill Size with 140 m and reached 145.8 points, which will made him the first one on the cross-country track this afternoon.

Rank 2 after jumping went to Ryota Yamamoto from Japan, who landed at 142.5 meters (145.5 pts) and went into the course only 1 seconds behind Ilves.

Austrian Johannes Lamparter (142 m, 143.6 pts) placed third with a 9 second backlog on the leader.

His team mate Franz-Josef Rehl jumped the furthest distance of the day with 143 meters (136.6 pts) and finished 7th in the end, together with Akito Watabe from Japan (138m, 136.6 pts).

A total of nine athletes went into the race within the first minute, including strong skier Eric Frenzel (135 m, +33 sec) from Germany.

Ilves, Yamamoto and Lamparter started the race almost together and formed a strong leading group early on.

The pursuers, lead by Frenzel ,did everything in their power to catch up to the top 3 and reduced the gap to 21.6 seconds after 5.1 km at the challenging cross-country course.

Meanwhile, the leaders showed no sign of slowing down and put in a commanding performance, led by Lamparter, who did most of the leading work.

The pursuers around Frenzel, Akito Watabe (JPN), Julian Schmid (GER) and Franz-Josef Rehrl (AUT), fell back after 7.1 km by 2 seconds (+23.7 sec) again, so that their hopes of a podium position were increasingly diminished.

On the last lap they pushed the pace again and closed the gap to 15.7 seconds, which in the end was still too much to catch the leaders.

The top 3 went down the home stretch together and delivered an exciting finish sprint in front of the fans in the Vogtland Arena, which Johannes Lamparter finally won.
The Austrian secured his second World Cup win, 0.3 seconds ahead of Ilves and Yamamoto (+ 0.7 sec) on third place. 
With his victory, Lamparter caught up to absent Jarl Magnus Riiber in the overall World Cup ranking with a total of 700 points. Because the Norwegian has more victories, he will keep the yellow bib for now.

Results: IG Men HS140/10km SJ – 15.1.22, Klingenthal
Overall Results: IG Men HS140/10km – 15.1.22, Klingenthal