Slovenia’s Marjan Jelenko, came, saw and conquered
the first Provisional Competition Round of the summer
of 2014. With a 100.5 metres and a total of 129.7
points, he beat Russian jumping sensation Evgeny
Klimov by hair’s breadth, or a point value of 0.1
points. With also 100.5 metres, Klimov and Jelenko
would start at the same time should the PCR have
to be used on this weekend.
Austrian Christoph Bieler finished third. A total
of 127.1 points for a jump of 100 metres would mean
a time disadvantage of 10 seconds on the roller-ski
track. Bieler’s young teammate Lukas Greiderer held
onto a great fourth position while Germans Johannes
Rydzek, Wolfgang Bo"sl and Eric Frenzel claimed
ranks five and six and seven. With Szczepan Kupczak,
Tomas Portyk and Franz-Josef Rehrl, three young
athletes rounded out the Top Ten of the day.
On Oberwiesenthal’s HS 106 hill, the field stayed
quite closely together with 26 athletes starting
within 26 seconds of each other should the PCR have
to be taken into account. For six athletes, the
PCR which also acted as a qualification for Sunday’s
Individual Gundersen event meant goodbye: Leevi
Mutru, Lukas Rypl, Geoffrey Lafarge, Viacheslav
Barkov, Samir Mastiev, Joze Kamenik and Nicholas
Madden will have to watch Sunday’s competition as
well as Alexander Brandner and Samuel Guy who were
disqualified.
