Nordic Skiingfemale jumping - Hinzenbach
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It has just finished race one of the Austrian female jumping weekend in that Hinzenbach. The mini trampoline has left open the victory speech for many athletes, but in the end was Sara Takanashi to take home the highest stakes.
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In all four training jumps, prior to the competition, the Kamikawa athlete has never been the best, also because the context is not for her one of the most favorable, considering the excellent quality in phase of flight combined with a push designed to bring out the maximum possible speed from the tooth.
Jumps decisive, the defending Crystal Ball has raised the level dell'asticella realizing the best score in both series: the first has gotten a jump from 87.5 meters, with winds less favorable to rivals, while in the second a performance by 91 meters, the best of the competition, this time with good pressure under the skis, has enabled it to establish itself in 4.2 lengths Katharina Althaus.
For the most successful athlete of the history of women's ski jumping (with today we are at 51 successes in the World Cup), it is on the horizon for the second consecutive crystal ball, the fourth of the still very brief career - just think that It has just over twenty years - thanks to heavy points that is accumulating on the most immediate pursuer: Yuki Ito.
Place of honor, therefore, for the twenty year old from Oberstdorf, author of a very convincing performance, as indeed is the current season: the excellent quality on the first 20 meters of flight, make it the ideal springboard of Upper Austria to its features. Today's result is the best of the Bavarian career, having passed the third-place finish three weeks ago in Sapporo.
Third place for another Teutonic, the World Championships and Olympic champion in office: Carina Vogt. The mirror-image quality to the team mate, have allowed it to get back in the top 3 for the first time after the World Cup in Falun 2015, considering all the top-level competitions. The separation from younger compatriot stood at 3.9 points, for most points accumulated in the linked style.
All athletes who completed the podium had an excellent consistency of performance, confirming the result of the first run. The only one that has plummeted in the second half of the race was the darling of the house Chiara Hoelzl, for ex aequo with Takanashi after the first jump. At the decisive moment it is not confirmed among the best, because of a botched performance on detachment from the tooth that has led to a measure of only 82 meters and the final sixth place.
Fourth currency to the Japanese Yuki Ito, unlucky in the second segment of the race because of the worst conditions he found the whole contest. Today lost the beauty of 50 points by the most quoted countryman, heavy optic ultimate success of the World Cup.
Fifth place for the best Austrian Daniela Iraschko-Stolz, confermatasi atop the standings, but never in contention for the top 3, the minimum wage due to the characteristics of best splits tooth pink circuit. Continue, then, a year in chiaroscuro for Rot-Weiss-Rot team, sometimes competitive and other decidedly subdued.
Yuka Seto equaled his season best of Zao, with seventh place today. It is confirmed, therefore, by far, the third force within the Japanese team and above all one of the top 15 athletes in the world. Then we find Maren Lundby in eighth place: the great sensitivity of which has earned very little in this context and has moved increasingly from the first two in general maximum circuit standings.
They closed the top 10 Jacqueline Seifriedsberger and Svenja Wuerth, respectively 9th and 10th. For the first it was a small step forward after a month of January with more shadows than lights, while the second was confirmed once again as an athlete in high growth compared to past seasons.
Partial delusions brought as a dowry by Maja Vtic (13th) and Irina Avvakumova (14 ^): With regard to the Slovenian, the expected close to the best 5, saw the favorable competition environment, while the Russian failed to come at the head of a trampoline so small (HS94).
not very positive day for the blue color: the only jumper in points was Elena Runggaldier (25th), while Roberta D'Agostina and Veronica Gianmoena respectively 33 ^ and 35 ^, have not made the best competition of the less qualified usual. Evelyn Insam has not taken off because of the flu.
In summary, the general classification of the World Cup to see Takanashi summit with 1095, followed by Ito (892), Lundby (729), Iraschko-Stolz (555) and Althaus (521).
Tomorrow there will be a second individual competition, which kicks off again at 13.00 to Hinzenbach.
Hinzenbach I - HS 94
1. Sara Takanashi (JPN) 242.1 2. ALTHAUS Katharina (GER) 237.9 3. VOGT Carina (GER) 234.0 4. ITO Yuki (JPN) 230.8 5. Iraschko-STOLZ Daniela (AUT) 230.7 6. HOELZL Chiara (AUT) 224.8 7. SETO Yuka (JPN) 223.5 8. Maren Lundby (NOR) 219.7 9. Seifriedsberger Jacqueline (AUT) 213.1 10. Svenja WUERTH (GER) 210.7
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