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In the weekend, the Men's Grand Prix will return to action at Hakuba (Japan), the third biggest classic of the top summer circuit, which will also come to its boa.
Friday 25 August 2017 6 minutes reading time
NEWS New names are announced in top positions, simply because there will be no players in the three GP races so far.
In fact none of the top 10 of the overall standings will be in Japan. The best ranked athlete in the absolute ranking of the Japanese competition is Halvor Granerud, followed by two blue Sebastian Colloredo and Davide Bresadola.
This is because among Poland's top nations Poland and Germany send lower quotas of second-tier lines, Austria despises the appointment, while the Czech Republic will be part of the game without its Roman-Koudelka diamond tip.
However, they are testing in the Land of the Levant, Dawid Kubacki will remain the leader of the absolute rank.
There will be Azzurri (Davide Bresadola and Sebastian Colloredo), which will then be able to mark other heavy points in the optics World Ranking List. Click here for the qualifying start list.
HISTORY The location of the Nagano Prefecture has entered the Summer Grand Prix calendar in 1998, and has since departed, except for a two-year bracket in the early 21st century.
As usual, he will compete on the Hakuuba jambu kyÅgii (K120 / HS131) ​​built in the early 1990s in order to host the competitions of the XVIII Winter Olympic Games, revealing triumphs for the Japanese movement.
Right on this trampoline on February 8, 1998, the quartet formed by Takanobu Okabe, Hiroya Saito, Masahiko Harada and Kazuyoshi Funaki won the Olympic gold medal in the team event, reaching what is considered to be the highest point in history in Japan Of jumping with the Japanese skis. A week later, in individual competition, there was another apotheosis. Funaki won the gold and Harada the bronze.
In spite of this forewarned glory, the winter use of Hakuba trampolines was marginal (in total there are only 6 World Cup trials, the last of which in 2004). At least in recent times the resort has come back to life in the Nordic combined.
In contrast, Hakuba jampu kyÅgii has hosted the beauty of 33 Summer Grand Prix races, more than any other trampoline. This primacy is the son of having organized two individual competitions in all seasons except for 1999, when there was a team event.
In spite of the overwhelming number of tests, no jumper was able to gain more than twice. However, there are eight who have two achievements.
This is Masahiko Harada (1998 and 2001), Jakub Janda (2005), Janne Happonen (2006), Simon Ammann (2007), Tom Hilde (2011), Andreas Wank (2012), Noriaki Kasai (2009 and 2013) and Phillip Sjøen (2014).
It should be noted that six men have made a double in the same season, while the two Japanese are the only ones who have dived into two different summers.
Among the athletes in action have also won Janne Ahonen (2000), Robert Kranjec (2009), Daiki Ito (2010), Kamil Stoch (2010), Krzysztof Biegun (2013), Jernej Damjan (2013 ex aequo with Kasai) Kento Sakuyama (2015), Anders Fannemel (2016) and Taku Takeuchi (2016).
The official summer record belongs to Simon Ammann who on August 29, 2009 reached 136 meters (5 in addition to the Hs). The longest jump ever realized belongs to Takanobu Okabe, which on February 26, 2011 even pushed 140 meters into a Japanese domestic race.
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