Nordic SkiingFemale jumping - Zao
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He continues the winning streak of Sara Takanashi in the World Cup of female jumping. The nineteen year old Japanese now has equaled a record imposing, albeit narrowly, in the second match on Mount Zao.
Saturday 23 January 2016 6 minutes reading time
Unlike what happened yesterday, when the competition & egrave; It was held in a sort of storm front air and & egrave; was stopped after the first series, today were proof & egrave; spun off smoothly.
Not that the context & egrave; revealed more & ugrave; simple. On the contrary, the wind has blown with force behind the athletes. Consequently it made it difficult to find out from the tooth portion and above all has not forgiven the bench & eacute; minimum error.
Alfine Sara Takanashi & egrave; He won anyway realizing narrowly the best score in both series. In the first were crucial assessments of the judges, in second length.
The nineteen year old Japanese visa & ograve; his victory seriously threatened by two Slovenian Maja Vtic Klinec and Ema, who finished in second and third place. The 'now twenty-eight of Lower Carniola confirmed the good things done yesterday, proving to be in excellent physical condition and technique. The talented seventeen Kranj, for the moment still very fickle, he instead found a performance quality & agrave; in a context difficult and - as regards the second set - & egrave; He has been good at exploiting conditions less penalizing in the landing area to earn those meters and decisive results. The result & egrave; Because historic in its own way & eacute; Slovenian was never the movement succeeded in placing two athletes on the podium in the same race.
However, the competition has today brought with it a record itself. Takanashi signed in fact the fifth consecutive victory. If we look only at the World Cup record, which she held, & egrave; seven statements in a row. However in the middle of that Filotto there are the Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014, won by Carina Vogt.
Therefore, if we enlarge the 'horizon in all the races of the first level (thus assimilating the Olympic and World Cup to the World Cup), the teen Kamikawa equaled the pi & ugrave; long series of victories never realized and, therefore, next week in Oberstdorf salter & agrave; un''inedito for sixth straight win.
Returning to the race today, for once the Austrian team & egrave; remained gi & ugrave; from the podium. Eva is Pinkelnig & egrave; confirmed by closing the top fourth, while Daniela Iraschko non-Stolz & egrave; gone beyond the sixth place as unable to cope with the harsh conditions found.
Between the two is & egrave; tucked the 'now nineteen Japanese Yuka Seto, the best result of his career, while more & ugrave; listed Yuki Ito could only finish seventh. Among the big disappoint the 'Austrian Clare H & ouml; LZL, sixteenth. Moreover, Germany has not placed any athlete in the top ten, with Carina Vogt, Katharina Althaus and Juliane Seyfarth all lined dall''undicesima the thirteenth currency.
As regards the Italian team, both blue engaged have gained access to the area points. Elena Runggaldier you & egrave; placed 24th and Evelyn Insam finished 28th.
Takanashi & egrave; increasingly & ugrave; only topped the overall standings of the World Cup, where he now commands with 680 points. Iraschko-Stolz & egrave; second at 439. Vtic you & egrave; capacity in third place with 318 and fourth with 273. Ito H & ouml; LZL & egrave; instead it slipped to fifth with 262.
After the long trip to Japan, the greatest women's tour returns to Europe. Next week will compete in Oberstdorf, Germany.
ZAO (II) - HS 1061. Sara Takanashi (JPN) 241.32. VTIC Maja (SLO) 238.73. KlÃnec Ema (SLO) 236.14. PINKELING Eva (AUT) 228.95. SETO Yuka (JPN) 228.26. Daniela Iraschko-STOLZ (AUT) 225.77. Yuki ITO (JPN) 225.48. AVVAKUMOVA Irina (RUS) 221.68. CLAIR Julia (FRA) 221610. Rogelj Spela (SLO) 220.4
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