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The Summer Grand Prix jumping is started in Russia, in Nizhy Tagil, after a break of three weeks for men and four for women. Today was held the first of two women's competitions.
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Sara Takanashi in absentia of several top athletes (Sarah Hendrickson and Alexandra Pretorius injured, Ema Klinec sent to compete in Continental Cup in Lillehammer, Yuki Ito not deployed) had no problem in winning their first win of the summer 2013.
The Japanese teenager in fact has pulverized the competition by imposing with over 20 points of margin on the French Coline Mattel, which has, however, revealed an increase after the lackluster performance of late July and early August.
The third place went to Katja Pozun, separated by 29.1 points from the winner. The Slovenian by just eight-tenths of Katharina Althaus (the best result of his career), managing to save the podium by the return of the German despite a bad second jump.
Fifth Slovenian another, Ursa Bogataj, which is placed immediately in front of the house darling of Irina Avvakumova, sixth. Notably, such as Canada, although devoid of the aforementioned Pretorus, has collected two top ten thanks to the talented but inconsistent Taylor Henrich (eighth) and Atsuko Tanaka, tithing.
Colorless overall performance for the Italian team. It is true that there are three athletes in the points, but the context of the bid was not the most qualified (37 girls at the start with several absences of weight). Evelyn Insam was the best, but it has gone beyond the sixteenth. Elena Runggaldier was placed twentieth, twenty-second Lisa Demetz. Instead, out of the thirty two blue that had behaved better between Hinterzarten and Courchevel, or Roberta D'Agostina and Manuela Malsiner.
Sara Takanashi has booked the victory in the overall standings of the Summer Grand Prix reaching 225 points, 96 more than 99 more than Mattel and Pozun. In light of today's balance of power is likely to think that tomorrow the Asian gains further ground on the pursuers.
In addition to the second women's race on Saturday there will be also the first of two male competition.
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