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Sara Takanashi has emerged again in Almaty, but today the success came with a shudder as it is done on the ground in the second series.
Sunday 22 September 2013 4 minutes reading time
The Japanese, already comfortably in command after the first half, found extremely favorable wind conditions during his second jump and landed eight feet beyond the point Hs, unable to remain standing.
Despite the inevitable penalties in the ratings of the judges due to the fall, apparently without consequences,'' the now seventeen year old Kamikawa still managed to gain success with a lead of 2.7 points on the Slovenian Katja Pozun, author of the highest score in the second series and the best result of his career.
The margin of the first series and the score resulting from extraordinary measure (107.5 meters, it would record the trampoline without the fall), were enough to Takanashi for the fourth consecutive victory in the Summer Circuit, 2013, the sixth out of ten competitions played in the history .
With the benefit of hindsight it can bite his hands Coline Mattel, which had the opportunity to'' win the first summer hit of his career and instead stumbled into the worst performance settembrina. The French, runner-up in the last three tests, today did not go beyond the fifth place due to a second jump is not flawless and has been running a close joke, or tenths of a point, from the Canadian Atsuko Tanaka, third, and from '' other Slovenian Eva Logar, fourth.
Tanaka this summer season had already shown jumps high level, but was never able to realize two in the same race as occurred this'' today. About Canada must be stressed seventh place Taylor Henrich, very important result in'' optical qualification to the Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014, as well as the sixth place of Julia Kykkänen.
Chapter Italy. Four blue dot, but far from all the top positions. Elena Runggaldier, nineteenth, was the best in front of Manuela Malsiner, twenty-first, to Robert D'' Agostina, twenty-third and Evelyn Insam, thirtieth. Lisa Demetz instead you are not qualified for the second series.
Takanashi won the Grand Prix standings with 525 points, ahead of Mattel (334) and Pozun (286). Best Italian Runggaldier, twenty-first with 61 points.
The summer circuit is completed. The female jumping World Cup will begin on December 7 in Lillehammer, Norway.
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