In Willingen, feud Noriaki Kasai, the last race before the Olympic Games [Presentation]

Over the weekend happening at the last competitions of the World Cup men's jump before the Olympic Games in Sochi. You will race in Willingen, Germany hillside town located in Hesse and equipped with the Large Hill most impressive in the world.

Friday 31 January 2014 4 minutes reading time

The two matches will be hosted by "MÃ¼hlenkopf-Schanze", the point K is fixed at 130 meters and the place where Hill Size is 145 meters. '' The plant, built in 1951, but completely refurbished'' beginning of the twenty-first century, only smaller trampolines flight. Willingen made his debut in the calendar of the World Cup in 1995 and since then has become an almost permanent appointment'' for the major circuit gross of cancellations due to adverse weather conditions (as happened last year). So far we have played 21 individual races counting towards the crystal ball won by 15 different athletes representing 6 different countries. Japan's Noriaki Kasai'' is the only jumper to have imposed on 3 occasions (twice in 1999 and once in 2003). They are then able to repeat a successful German Sven Hannawald, the Finn Janne Ahonen and the'' Austrian Gregor Schlierenzauer. Realizing Kasai, Ahonen and Schlierenzauer are eight active athletes have excelled in at least once on MÃ¼hlenkopf-Schanze. The three mentioned are added, each with a strong victory, the Norwegian Anders Jacobsen, Anders Bardal and BjÃ¸rn Einar RomÃ¸ren'' s Austrian Andreas Kofler and Germany's Severin Freund. The voice commands the nations'' Austria with 7 hits. In second place Japan (4) followed by Germany (3), Finland (3) and Norway (3). Closes with 1 victory over Poland. On the subject of the podium always controls Noriaki Kasai, however, matched by Janne Ahonen and Andreas WidhÃ¶lzl, all at 4. Active athletes to be on the podium in Willingen without ever imposed are Martin Schmitt (3), Jernej Damjan (2), Simon Ammann (2), Robert Kranjec (1), Thomas Morgenstern (1), Michael Neumayer (1 ), Martin Koch (1), Roman Koudelka (1), Daiki Ito (1). L'' Austria is the leading country for top-three at an altitude of 13, but is hunted by Germany (12). Followed by Finland (10) and Japan (10). They are then Norway (7), Slovenia (4) Switzerland (4) Poland (2) and Czech Republic (1). The official record of the trampoline belongs to Janne Ahonen, landed 152 meters (over 7.5 l'' Hs) January 9, 2005. However, legend has it that the Finn is actually reached 155.5 meters and that the jump was so long since he had knocked the measurement system'' s era, so the measure was rounded up to the maximum conceivable by computer systems of the time . Concerned in each case the longest jump ever performed on Large Hill.

Francesco Paone

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