Nordic SkiingFemale jumping
Getty Images
Tomorrow to take Courchevel & agrave; officially off the fourth edition of the Summer Grand Prix women's ski jumping, an event that, unlike their male counterparts, & egrave; still in search of his own self-determination.
Wednesday 12 August 2015 3 minutes reading time
In fact, after a promising start in 2012 and six races in 2013, the version of "pink" GP risked disappearing gi & agrave; in 2014 when & egrave; It survived only thanks to the organizers of the stage of Almaty, managed to set up two events also taking on a substantial part of the travel costs.
In this 2015 Summer Grand Prix women back to having oxygen Since & eacute; in calendar are five races, the first of which will go & agrave; staged tomorrow on Tremplin au Praz (K90 / HS96), theater in 2012 of the inaugural event, the maximum circuit of plastic.
C '' & egrave; It gave a really curious about Courchevel. To date, the GP women had un''unica, undisputed ruler. It's Sara Takanashi who, in addition to establish itself in the overall ranking of all three editions, has won 8 of 12 races in history, on the podium in 10 of them.
However Japan has singularly missed the top-three in both competitions held in Courchevel Since & eacute; He concluded in 2012 and eighth in 2013 & egrave; He came fifth.
To want to be malicious one could argue that this fact has been his fortune. In fact, five of the six girls get on the podium in the resort & agrave; the & nbsp; Rh & ocirc; ne-Alpes were then victims of serious knee injuries.
In 2012 he prevailed Alexandra Pretorius before Daniela Iraschko and Jacqueline Seifriedsberger. In 2013 Trionf & ograve; Ema Klinec ahead of Sarah Hendrickson and Yuki Ito (quest''ultima & egrave; the 'only one not to have had trouble after their top-three in Courchevel).
The official record of the trampoline belongs to Daniela Iraschko, came to 100.5 meters (4.5 over the 'Hs) in 2012, when & egrave; got the best placement for un''italiana, thanks to the seventh I put Evelyn Insam.
© ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Social media engagement
More about Nordic Skiing
Ski Jumping
Fabio Poncemi, Friday 11 September
Nordic Combined
From tomorrow through September 17, the Italian Nordic combined team gathers in Predazzo
Fabio Poncemi, Thursday 10 September
Nordic Skiing
Fabio Poncemi, Wednesday 9 September
Nordic Skiing
Umberto Volpe, Tuesday 8 September
Cross-Country Skiing
Fabio Poncemi, Tuesday 8 September
Cross-Country Skiing
Umberto Volpe, Sunday 6 SeptemberUltimi in Sport invernali
Ricco week-end in Cechia: Nicole Mastalli vince in super-g, Michael Bertagno in slalom dopo il dominio di Ales Knor
Sci d'erba: sulla pista di Obri Sud Javornik, triplo appuntamento FIS (e per la Junior Cup) partendo dalle gare veloci col timbro della lombarda, mentre in gigante comincia il dominio della nazionale di casa, con la chiusura odierna in slalom che parla azzurro in ambito maschile. Nel prossimo week-end le finali di Coppa del Mondo a Predaia, nel cuore del Trentino.
2