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After the "prologue" in Lillehammer played almost two weeks ago, the World Cup of female jumping back into action in Hinterzarten, where you've played it 4 races counting towards the maximum circuit.
Friday 20 December 2013 3 minutes reading time
Hinterzarten is a town near Titisee-Neustadt, where last week staged the men's World Cup. '' We are therefore in the extreme south-west of Germany, about thirty kilometers from the French border and Swiss.
He competes on the Rothaus-Schanze, whose point K is set at 95 meters, the largest of the four trampolines that make up the'' Adler-Skistadion which includes also the'' Energiedienst-Schanze (K15), the Schü , lerschanze (K30) and the'' Europa-Park-Schanze (K70).
The Rothaus-Schanze, built between 1980 and 1981 before being renovated in 1999, has become a fixture for the female jumping from 2010 and over the past four years it has hosted a number of top-level competitions (World Cup, Continental Cup circuit when this was the best Grand Prix) and World junior.
As for the World Cup were played 4 games in the last two winters. The U.S. Sarah Hendrickson, on this occasion absent through injury, has imposed on 2 occasions (2012 and 2013). The other wins went to Japanese Sara Takanashi (2013) and the Swiss Windmülller Sabrina (2012), which was imposed in a single series of competition extremely distorted by the wind where, however, the'' blue Lisa Demetz closed the third.
Before the birth of the World Cup in 2011, there have been 2 trials Continental Cup when it was the greatest successes of the circuit with Daniela Iraschko and Coline Mattel. Regarding the Austrian'' should be remembered as on this trampoline in January procured the serious knee injury that has troubled'' until a few weeks ago.
Iraschko was also set in a race of Grand Prix (2012) which also boasts a win the Canadian Alexandra Pretorius (2013).
The first test on the female always Rothaus-Schanze, however, is that the World Juniors in 2010 that the Italian'' remembers very well. In fact, Elena Runggaldier won the gold medal in front of'' Mattel and Hendrickson.
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