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Ski jumping: Career best for Poland’s Wąsek in Russia

07.12.2020 08:10
Twenty-one-year-old Polish ski jumper Paweł Wąsek has notched up a career best by finishing sixth in a World Cup competition in Nizhny Tagil, Russia.
Paweł Wąsek flies through the air in Nizhny Tagil, Russia.
Paweł Wąsek flies through the air in Nizhny Tagil, Russia. Photo: EPA/SERGEI ILNITSKY

The event was won by Norway’s Halvor Egner Granerud, with his countrymen Robert Johansson and Marius Lindvik second and third.

Top Polish jumpers Kamil Stoch, Dawid Kubacki and Piotr Żyła did not take part in the weekend competition in Russia, remaining instead in their home country to prepare for the FIS Ski Flying World Championships starting on Thursday in Planica, Slovenia.

Polish jumpers took second and third places in a World Cup individual competition in the Finnish resort of Ruka last weekend. Żyła finished the runner-up, ahead of Kubacki.

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Source: PAP