| June 20, 2006: Competitions in Poland and Slovenia / New record set | ||||
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A. Malysz |
Former World-Champion Adam Malysz won the “Doskonale Mleko”-Cup competition in Zakopane (POL) last weekend. With jumps of 124.5 m and 123 m for a total of 242.5 points and clearly relegated his teammates Wojciech Skupien (117.5m/121.5m; 225.7 pts.) and Kamil Stoch (123m/114m; 221.6 pts.) to the second and third place on the podium. Those three were followed by Marcin Bachleda (213.8 pts.), Slovene Jure Bogataj (212.4 pts.) and Stefan Hula (211.0 pts.).
In absence of the top jumpers domestic competition in Ljubljana (SLO) was won by Anze Obreza with 237.5 pts ahead of Jure Sinkovec (232.5 pts.) and Mitja Meznar (227.3 pts.). The Top-3 in the Juniors class (under 18) were Primoz Roglic, Jurij Tepes and Anze Martinc. An endurance record in skijumping was also set in Slovenia on the K90 hill in Velenje recently. Former national team member Milan Zivic did a total of 155 jumps in almost thirty hours from June 16 to 17. While it only took him eight hours for the first 50 jumps, he needed almost eleven hours for the last 50. The longest jump of the 25-year-old during this special record attempt was 83 m and the total distance was 12 739 m. |
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