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As expected Sara Takanashi won one race 'advance the overall ranking of the Summer Grand Prix in 2015, winning by a wide margin in the first of the two competitions played in Almaty.
Saturday 12 September 2015 5 minutes reading time
Once again, the Japanese teenager crushed the competition, inflicting 23.1 points all''avversaria pi & ugrave; nearby. However the abyss & egrave; It was excavated using only its second jump.
In fact in mid & agrave; test the US Nita Englund paid only 2.3 lengths all''asiatica. The conditions for & ograve; have changed radically in the next series (the wind from the front & egrave; become tail) and the 'American has paid duty, saving, however, a square of' honor which earned the first podium of his career in the maximum summer circuit and at the same time equals the best result ever in the United States Grand Prix nell''ambito (tied second place of Sarah Hendrickson in Courchevel 2013).
Third place for the constant and reliable Yuki Ito, result more & ugrave; that deserved as the number two in the Japanese movement has made the third score in both jumps. As often happened in the World Cup comes a remarkable team performance of Slovenia, forced to & ograve; to give up the top-three. No coincidence that four representatives of the nation Triglav closed in the first seven positions, but the best one & egrave; placed fourth.
Male hand the Norwegians much liked to Tchaikovsky. Maren Lundby and Line Jahr concluded just off a top ten in which they find space also Jacqueline Seifriedsberger and the two Russian Irina Avvakumova and Sofia Tikhonova. Disappointing also evidence of Julia Clair, thirteenth.
For Takanashi & egrave; The seventh statement in as many races on Gorney Gigant, a success that as already & agrave; said the true with a call for 'early win the Summer Grand Prix in 2015 and consequently the fourth career victory in the overall standings summer.
Moreover Yuki Ito mathematically took the place of 'honor as it has over 100 points of margin on the third. Sar & agrave; instead open struggle for the step pi & ugrave; Because of the podium & eacute; Englund (164), Jahr (162), Rogelj (154), Clair (147) and Lundby (142) are separated by a few lengths. It decider & agrave; all nell''atto final tomorrow.
It goes altres & Igrave; remarked how Takanashi has ringed the tenth consecutive victory in the Grand Prix races.
ALMATY HS1061. Sara Takanashi (JPN) 246.82. ENGLUND Nita (USA) 223.73. Yuki ITO (JPN) 221.74. Rogelj Spela (SLO) 218.15. VTIC Maja (SLO) 217.96. Seifriedsberger Jacqueline (AUT) 212.47. POZUN Katja (SLO) 209.58. Ursa Bogataj (SLO) 208.99. AVVAKUMOVA Irina (RUS) 205910. Tikhonova Sofia (RUS) 203.4
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