Nordic

Fletchers Move Up in Team Sprint

by
USSA
2016-02-27 06:03
 

VAL DI FIEMME, Italy (Feb. 26, 2017) - Brother Bryan and Taylor Fletcher (Steamboat Springs, CO) came from behind to finish sixth in a FIS Nordic Combined World Cup Friday in Val di Fiemme. Norway 1 picked up the win by 6.7 seconds over Germany 1, with France 1 in third.

The Fletcher brothers jumped to ninth then posted the third-fastest cross country time to move up to sixth.

"Today was a better day for Taylor and I,” said Bryan. “We both had some decent jumps that put us closer to the fight for the podium.”

Taylor jumped 114.5 with Bryan soaring 129.0 – one of the longest jumps of the round.

"Today was a extremely hard with every aspect of the jumping,” said Taylor. "The large hill event from World Championships was the exact same with the wind conditions. The round started with really strong tail wind and I felt like I had a much better jump. At the start of the second round the wind switched to really strong headwind and the skiers started to really fly! I was stoked to see that Bryan had a much better jump and put us in a position to race and push the pace in the cross country.”

The brothers started the cross country relay a minute, 22 seconds back.

"The cross country race was better on the result page then how it felt for me,” said Taylor. "My legs were heavy from the last couple races, but I was stoked to see I had a strong race with how I felt.”

"Personally I think I pushed a little too hard in the first three laps resulting in some tired legs down the stretch,” said Bryan. "I managed to hold it together just enough for Taylor to pull us back into the fight for top six.”

Individual events are on tap Saturday and Sunday.

"I would not be surprised to see some great performances and some totally blow ups from all the nordic combined competitors,” said Bryan. "We have done a ton of racing and quite a bit of travel over the last two weeks and it will show this weekend. Personally I think today I raced some of the fatigue from travel out of my legs and hopefully tomorrow I will bounce back and be able to ski strong in the 10k.”

"Today was a step forward for us and we are going to build on this for the rest of the weekend,” added Taylor.

RESULTS
Nordic Combined Team Sprint

 


 


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