Combiner Fabian Rießle celebrated his first victory of the season at the World Cup in Ramsau/Austria. The Olympic third from Sochi won the last race of the year against the Italian Alessandro Pittin. Third place went to Eero Hirvonen from Finland.
“Today there was a lot of pain, but we had really good boards under our feet,”says Rießle after the sixth victory of his career on ZDF. Already on Saturday, the 26-year-old from Breitnau finished second behind Olympic champion Eric Frenzel. Frenzel had to stay in bed with a fever of 39 degrees on Sunday.
The team of national coach Hermann Weinbuch has now won three of the six individual races of the Olympic Winter,”Fabian has made the perfect race. First he ran forward, then rested a bit and finally struck hard,”said Weinbuch.
Record world champion Johannes Rydzek had to make do with fifth place in spite of a chase to catch up, as early as Saturday the Allgäuer was not over 21st place. Rank out. Vinzenz Geiger (Oberstdorf) finished seventh, completing the excellent German result once again.
Rießle was ninth on the cross-country ski run, Rydzek on rank 14. Because the jumping had to be stopped after 24 athletes because of difficult wind conditions, the results from the provisional race on Friday were used to calculate the starting order. FIS Racing Director Lasse Ottesen, on the other hand, emphasized that the safety of the athletes was more important.
On Saturday Frenzel had reached 42nd place without any health problems. World Cup victory in his career. In the “eternal” leaderboard he moved up to the leading Finn Hannu Manninen (48 victories). Rießle came second ahead of Jan Schmid – it was the second German one-two win of the winter. Rydzek, on the other hand, had to make do with rank 21 after a failed jump.