Finnish hill jumper Eetu Nousiainen made a wild jump in Poland. However, the race was stopped after almost two hours of waiting.
In the Men’s Hill Jumping World Cup in Szczyrk, Poland, we saw a special hill race on a normal hill, which finally ended in an interruption.
Jumped at the beginning of the race Eetu Nousiainen flew 103.5 meters in ideal wind conditions. He held the new hill record, which the Bulgarian Vladimir Zografski your page later. As much as 15 points were deducted from both jumps due to wind compensation. Later in Italy Andrea Capmregher bounced another 108.5 meters.
Nousiainen was eighth in the race at the time of the suspension. The change from yesterday’s qualifying is drastic, because Nousiainen was only 39th.
However, the round was quite a wind lottery and the conditions were not equal. For example, Norway, who set the previous official hill record in yesterday’s qualifying Kristoffer Sundal Eriksen got to jump into a really bad wind gap and he was far behind.
Towards the end of the round, the conditions became even more difficult. It was finally decided to cancel the race after a long wait due to the dangerous wind. There were only ten jumpers left in the tower.
The tour lasted almost two hours.
With the cancellation, the results of the race were invalidated and the Italian will therefore not get the hill record to his name.
Nousiainen has been eighth in the world cup at best two years ago in the Oberstdorf flying hill race. Anssi Koivuranta At the beginning of the year, ten years have passed since the previous podium place achieved by a Finnish man in the World Cup.
Nousiainen has been 24th at his best this season.
Jenny Rautionaho finished second in the Sapporo World Cup last weekend. It was the first podium finish in Finnish ski jumping in almost ten years.