Nordic Combined

Frenzel breaks record

Eric Frenzel celebrates in Trondheim its 29. World Cup victory in the Nordic combined. So he gets the German record. International was in the world Cup the only one ever successful.

“For me, this is of course something Great, I’m very happy,” said Eric Frenzel after he is in Trondheim in Norway, the Nordic combined, won the 29. World Cup victory of his career had brought. The 27-Year-old left in the “eternal” German world Cup rankings Ronny Ackermann behind it in his active time on 28 successes had brought. Ackermann was pleased with Frenzel: “I think That, of course, well, after all I am his coach. I hoped, that was always a high Motivation for him. Hannu obtain, but is a bit more difficult.” The Finn Hannu Manninen in Nordic combined, with 48 Victories of the single, the even more successful than Frenzel was.

“Don’t know how to get to Eric to suggest”

The Jump from the Großschanze in Trondheim had the Japanese Akito Watabe. Frenzel was second with a gap of 27 seconds in the run. At the end, he let Watabe by 15.9 seconds behind. “It wasn’t easy,” said Frenzel. “I wanted the hole to him, close, and then the strength for the decisive attack save. That worked out well.” For Watabe, it was the eighth podium of the season, has won it but never: “I’m probably the eternal Second. I just don’t know how Eric is currently hitting.” Third was the Norwegian Jörgen Graabak. With his sixth win of the season built Frenzel his lead in the overall world Cup, with 911 points, he now lies clear before Watabe (764).

Second best German was Manuel Faißt as ninth. World champion Johannes Rydzek had after a weak jump with a rank of ten content. Had bad luck shooting star Jarl Magnus Riiber. The 18-Year-old, most recently twice in a row on the podium, crashed after a big jump. Riiber was uninjured, but went with significant backlog in the cross-country and was at the end of Twelfth.

sn/to (sid, dpa)