Nordic SkiingMens Jump - Lillehammer 2013
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Over the weekend the World Cup Jumping (male and female) will be staged in Lillehammer, Norway, by now habitual theater competitions of the maximum circuit. For men will be the third round of this season, while the women will'' s debut.
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The resort'' s Oppland, located about 150 km north of the capital Oslo, has hosted a race before its time in March 1984. So did constantly part of the calendar of the World Cup since 1993, except for the absence'' between 1999 and 2003.
The competition held over the years he played in the 80'' Balbergbakken, trampoline now in disuse. Now the evidence of the World Cup held in the Lysgårdsbakkene Ski Jumping Arena, structure built at the beginning of'' 90 years specifically for the Winter Olympics of 1994. In this system, renovated in 2007, there are two trampolines side by side on the weekend which will be played three different competitions.
MASCHILEIl Normal Hill has hosted three races counting towards the World Cup more than that of the XVII Olympic Winter Games. The successes have gone to the Norwegian Espen Bredesen (Olympic champion 1994), the Finn Mika Antero Laitinen (1995), all'' Austrian Andreas Kofler (2011) and the German Severin Freund (2012).
Curiously, no athlete can boast more than a podium. Aside from the winners of the last two years, including those in business have a place in the top three even Richard Freitag, Thomas Morgenstern, Kamil Stoch and Anders Bardal.
Ben richer instead the story of the Large Hill, where there were 25 races of the World Cup more than the Olympic in 1994.
The jumper to have collected more successes is the'' Austrian Gregor Schlierenzauer, who imposed it 4 times (December 2006, March 2008, December 2009, November 2012). Followed at an altitude of 3 l'' another Austrian Thomas Morgenstern (March 2006, two in December 2010) and Switzerland's Simon Ammann (December 2006, December 2009, March 2010).
The voice command podium athletes themselves. Schlierenzauer and Morgenstern are credited with six top-three, while Ammann 5. They are then to 4 German Dieter Thoma and Swiss Andreas Küttel.
Regarding the nations none can compete with the'' Austria (9 successes). Followed by Germany (5), Switzerland and Finland (4), Norway (3), Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic (1).
The men's program of 2013 provides for the race on Normal Hill Saturday, December 7th at 17.00 and the Large Hill on Sunday 8th at 15.00.
FEMMINILEIn the women's field has competed only on Normal Hill and in the light of the young age of the World Cup, to Saturday, December 7th (15.00) will be the third race valid for the maximum circuit.
Lillehammer, however, will remain forever in the history of jumping pink as the theater of the first race of the World Cup ever.
On 3 December 2011, the U.S. Sarah Hendrickson prevailed in front of the French Coline Mattel and Germany's Melanie Faißt. '' The past year instead won the Japanese Sara Takanashi with Hendrickson second and third Norwegian Anette Sagen.
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