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The Nordic Ski Combined World Cup was held in Finland on the 24th, and Japanese ace Akito Watabe, who won the silver medal for the second consecutive tournament at the Olympic Games, won the championship for the first time this season. Watanabe was in line with Kenji Ogiwara’s record of 19 most wins for Japanese players.
The men of the Nordic combination, Japanese ace Watanabe, participated in the individual World Cup match held in Lahti, Finland on the 24th.
Watanabe jumped 129 50 meters in the first half of the jump on the big hill with a hill size of 130 meters, and was surpassed only by the Japanese player Ryota Yamamoto.
Watanabe, who started the 10km of cross-country skiing in the second half just a second from the top, quickly took the lead.
After that, Norway’s Jarl Magnus Riiber, who is aiming for a third consecutive win over Yamamoto, came in second.
The difference with Ribel, who was about 30 seconds immediately after the start, was less than 6 seconds after the 6 kilometers, but in the end Watanabe escaped by about 10 seconds and achieved the first victory of the season …
Watanabe, who won the silver medal for the second consecutive tournament at the Olympics, was in line with Ogiwara’s record of 19 World Cup winning records in February 1996.
In addition, 23-year-old Yamamoto, who ranked first in the jump, came third.
After the team sprint on the 23rd, Yamamoto took the podium for the first time as an individual.
Among the other Japanese players, Watanabe’s younger brother Zento was 14, Hideaki Nagai was 18, Kodai Kimura was 28 and Sora Taniji was 35.
Watanabe “Satisfied with performance”
Watanabe said: “I tried to do my best. It was very difficult to fight Libel, who won the all-around for the second time in a row, but I’m satisfied with my performance. I like Lahti’s place, and Lahti is mine too. I think. that I like, “he said with a smile.
Lead to ideal development and win
Watanabe made a great record by bringing his own “winning pattern” to the ideal development.
In the first half, Watanabe showed a great jump of 129 and 50 meters, which is a “hill size” that is dangerous if you fly further in a strong headwind.
While rival Europeans were unable to extend the distance, Watanabe scored a result and managed to bring the cross-country third-place gap to 27 seconds, which is an advantageous advance.
In the second half, in the 10km cross country, he took the lead right after the start and pulled the race.
Norwegian Libel, aiming for the third consecutive victory in every way, was close to the gap in less than 6 seconds at about 6.1 km, but Watanabe immediately picked up his gear and pushed it in one go.
Watanabe who did not yield even once until the end and finished with a difference of 10 seconds or more over Ribel.
With the ideal development of the jump to lengthen the distance and widen the gap with the Europeans and escape in the second half of cross-country skiing, he achieved the first victory of the season and was in line with the record of a great player with the title of “King of Skiing”.
Watanabe, who had been feeling good before the start of this season, achieved great results in about two months after opening.
Akito Watabe career
He has participated in the Olympics for four consecutive games since he was a high school student and has won silver medals in two consecutive games, the Sochi Games and the Pyeongchang Games.
Both jumping and cross-country skiing have first-class skills, and their strength is that they don’t have major weaknesses and they have the power to create overwhelming flight distance, especially in jumping.
Since his first World Cup appearance in 2005-06, he has been in the top three for eight consecutive seasons from 2011-12, and will be Japan’s highest-winning season in 2018-19. With seven wins, he was the second Japanese to win the overall championship since Kenji Ogiwara.
Last season I gained weight with the aim of improving my running ability, so I couldn’t get my feelings back until the end of the season, and since March 2018, I won the championship for the first time in two seasons and won one, but 9 For the first time this season, I missed third place overall and finished ninth.
Her younger brother, Zento, who is three years younger, has also participated in the Olympics for two consecutive tournaments, and their first child was with his wife, Yurie, who participated in the Pyeongchang tournament as a women’s half pipe last month of November. born and vowed to leap forward.
