Maren Lundby advantage dellassenza Takanashi and Ito to win the first race of Ljubno

The weekend of the Slovenian women's ski jumping began in the sign of absence, in fact in Ljubno there are no less than 5 of the top 15 athletes of the overall standings of the World Cup. So to dominate was Maren Lundby, indeed the only one present capable of winning in the current season.

Saturday 11 February 2017 9 minutes reading time

The performance produced by the Norwegian twenty-two was really convincing, especially since he defected all training jumps, largely because of transport problems he had all the Scandinavian national. Already in the first round stationed athlete in Lillehammer he has carved a decisive lead over all rivals: landing at 92.5 meters, the best measure of heat combined with excellent stylistic assessments. Thus ended the first half of the race with a lead of 3.4 lengths Daniela Iraschko-Stolz, an abyss considered the context of the bid as one of the less extreme maximum circuit. In the second segment of the competition, Lundby has reconfirmed the best of the lot, with the best performance of the day (95 meters, the point HS) with a telemark encyclopedic, did not assume the Slovenian slope, where already one meter beyond the HS risk to jump the knees. The young Norwegian has achieved the fourth victory of the season, and career, even if the absences of Takanashi and Ito make it the less prestigious. However, the winner today approached sensibly athlete to Shimokawa in the overall standings of the World Cup, questioning the second end position. The place of honor was confirmed Iraschko-Stolz also at the decisive moment: for her a jump from 94.5 meters, with excellent genuflection, has enabled it to match their season-best, collected in the stage Dicembrino of Nizhny Tagil. Third place went to the Bavarian Katharina Althaus: the third podium of the season and career in top-level competitions, came after a fight on the edge of tenths with team-mate Carina Vogt finally beaten 0.6 lengths of sunshine. Detachment from the first is still quite full-bodied, higher than the eleven points from Scandinavian. Those who lost their top three, despite having led an amazing race, was the other Teutonic Svenja Wuerth: for her were not enough two performances over 92 meters, because in both cases has not even thought of supporting the notorious telemark, So it had to settle eighth final position. In this case the race direction has not shone in making their own choices: from the first jumps of the second series the weather looked much better than the first, but no one jumped in mind to change the departure gate, between the other coach even German. Similar situation lived Manuela Malsiner, confermatasi among the best in the world even today, a victim herself of the choices that have imposed in the second part of the race, when it landed at 94.5 meters then touching the snow with his hands, before the line fall. The much-requested lowering of the pole to start is happened right after the performance of Ortisei girl, so relegated to seventh place, because Jacqueline Seifriedsberger (6th) and Ema Klinec (5th) have jumped a few meters less, however, the necessary supporting genuflection. They closed the top 10 Chiara Hoelzl and Maja Vtic, respectively 9th and 10th streets: the glories of the past season, where both were able to get on the podium in Ljubno and even the Slovenian to win race two, are long gone. If the athlete of Schwarzach im Pongau there is the excuse of the accident fall, for the lady of the house was confirmed as a season in the fog after a high-level, leitmotiv of the entire career. Very good result for the Finnish Julia Kykkaenen - eleventh - a crescendo of their form ahead of the home World Cup to be held in the second half of the month in the Lahti. The excellent performance of the first set, which she won 10th place provisionally, has made an equally positive, retreating only one position and getting the best result of the season. The other big absences of the weekend are represented by Irina Avvakumova, Sarah Hendrickson, Yuka Seto, Tayloy Henrich, Nika Kriznar and Juliane Seyfarth, besides the mentioned Takanashi and Ito, those to better prepare the World Championship event, for those who move without rushing to Korea. The azure committed in Slovenia were well 6: addition to the aforementioned Manuela Malsiner, kicked off the competition Elena Runggaldier (14th), Evelyn Insam (24th) and Lara Malsiner (32 ^). They did not pass the obstacle of qualifying Roberta D'Agostina (31 ^) and Veronica Gianmoena (39th). The general classification of the World Cup sees closer Takanashi (1195) to the final victory, in fact the just beat the two rivals, Ito (928) and Lundby (889), in the Wednesday, Feb. 15 competition to win his fourth ball crystal. Tomorrow there will be a second race in Ljubno, before the hasty transfers in the county of Pyeongchang County for pre-Olympic test. It'll start again at 13.00 with the first round, anteceduto from qualifying. LJUBNO I - HS 95 1. Maren Lundby (NOR) 256.7 2. Iraschko-STOLZ Daniela (AUT) 251.1 3. ALTHAUS Katharina (GER) 245.6 4. VOGT Carina (GER) 245.0 5. KlÃnec Ema (SLO) 241.1 6. Seifriedsberger Jacqueline (AUT) 240.2 7. Malsiner Manuela (ITA) 235.0 8. WUERTH Svenja (GER) 233.5 9. HOELZL Chiara (AUT) 231.2 10. VTIC Maja (SLO) 230.4 Click here for the full results.

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