COC-M: Clemens Leitner's streak continues in Lahti
Mar 08, 2020·Ski Jumping
Clemens Leitner is the "Man of the Weekend" at the Continental Cup of the ski jumpers in Lahti (FIN). After his win on Saturday evening, the Austrian was also the dominating athlete on Sunday.
The 21-year-old Tyrolean posted the best jumps in both rounds with 125.5 m and 127.5 m and clearly claimed his third win in a row with his total of 264.0 points.
"I’m very satisfied with the competition because today both of my jumps were pretty good. It was a good day with good jumps", told this weekend's best jumper.
Just like the Austrian, Slovenia's Lovro Kos is also in constant, strong shape over the last couple of weeks. The 20-year-old confirmed this today by repeating his second place from yesterday with 123 m and 122 m and 241.6 points.
Pawel Wasek of Poland, ninth on Saturday, jumped on 125 m and 118.5 m this time and finished third with a total of 236.1 points.
Bor Pavlovcic of Slovenia showed strong performances this weekend as well, but after finishing third yesterday, he narrowly missed the podium by only 1.5 points today in fourth. Yuken Iwasa was again the best Japanese in fifth, just behind him, Jarkko Maeaettae achieved a very good result for the hosting team of Finland in sixth.
The seventh place went to Ulrich Wohlgenannt of Austria. Germany's Moritz Baer was en route to the podium in second after the first round, behind Clemens Leitner and ahead of Lovro Kos. But in the final he was then not able to defend this position and so he came in eighth overall.
The two veterans Shohei Tochimoto of Japan and Poland's Stefan Hula completed the Top 10 on Sunday.
With the maximum of 200 points scored this weekend, Clemens Leitner now has a clear lead in the overall ranking of the Continental Cup with 1085 points. Clemens Aigner (931 points) and Taku Takeuchi (563 points).
The COC continues next weekend in Zakopane (POL).
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