Katharin Althaus triumphed in the first race of Villach

Formally Villach is going to stage a weekend FIS Cup, should read the third level of the women's circuit. However, in the resort Austrian field runners is highly qualified and is almost worthy of a test of the maximum circuit.

Saturday 12 July 2014 2 minutes reading time

The first of the two races in the program is been dominated by Germany's Katharina Althaus, able to achieve the best score in both race series. The eighteen year old Oberstdorf, long considered a potential big circuit (but hitherto remained far from performance suggested by the potential accreditatole by insiders), now had no rival and trailing by as many as 20 points, the Slovenian Ursa Bogataj, revealed second strength in both jumps. The podium was completed by an'' other languages, the fifteen Yanina Ernst, which preceded the Slovenian Katja Pozun fourth. "Only" the fifth French Coline Mattel, Olympic bronze medalist in Sochi. The Alps had to give up fight for the podium because of a first jump is not exciting, making proportionally better in the second series. Among the names of cry signals the sixth place in the Slovenian Spela Rogelj, Julia Clair of the ninth and fifteenth Lea Lemare. It should also be '' emphasized the great eleventh place of the Japanese Shihori Oi, class 1999. VILLACH - RACE I1. Katharina ALTHAUS [GER] 246.52. Ursa Bogataj [SLO] 226.53. ERNST Yanina [GER] 220.54. POZUN Katja [SLO] 212.55. MATTEL Mountain [FRA] 210.06. Rogelj Spela [SLO] 206.0 Click here for full results. Tomorrow is planning a second competition.

Francesco Paone

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