Stoch on top

5th February 2011

Stoch is celebrating again after a poor start

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Kamil Stoch followed up his debut World Cup victory in the ski jump with another win, this time in Klingenthal, Germany. Lying in fourth after the first round, he made a magnificent second round jump to outstrip this season’s leading jumper, Thomas Morgenstern, and take first place.

The victory looked highly unlikely after the first round of jumps, with a hill record of 146.5m set by Germany’s Michael Uhrmann leaving the rest of the pack way behind. But a terrible second round jump relegated the German to thirteenth, and Stoch’s 136.5m leap saw him land on top of the podium.

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