The Summer Grand Prix is ​​back in action at Hakuba. The general classification will be disrupted?

Phillip Sjøen schianta la concorrenza nella prima gara di Hakuba
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The Summer Grand Prix is ​​back in action at Hakuba. The general classification will be disrupted?

Weekends in the Summer Grand Prix 2016 effettuer & agrave; its halfway point with two races to Hakuba (Japan). As usual, the 'Asian appointment could distort the overall standings because of the many absences.

ATTUALITA''Infatti, in the top six of the absolute ranking, sar & agrave; present only the German Andreas Wellinger. The Bavarian will have & agrave; then the 'opportunity & agrave; to approach the yellow bib Maciej Kot, remained however in Europe, which currently & egrave; spaced of 184 points. However for the young Teutonic not sar & agrave; easy to fill. Norway is in force and the same goes for Japan landlord, who Schierer & agrave; - Among others - the 'eternal Noriaki Kasai. & Nbsp; HISTORY The resort & agrave; the prefecture of Nagano & egrave; entry in the calendar of the Summer Grand Prix 18 years ago and since then it & egrave; pi & ugrave; output, except for a parenthesis of a two-year period at the beginning of the XXI century. It garegger & agrave; sull''Hakuba jampu ky & # 333; & # 333 gij; (K120 / HS131) ​​built tains the early '90s to house the competitions of the XVIII Olympic Winter Games of 1998, proved triumphant in the Japanese movement. On this trampoline the 'February 8, 1998 the quartet formed by Takanobu Okabe, Hiroya Saito, Kazuyoshi Funaki and Masahiko Harada won the' gold medal in the team event in Japan reaching what is considered the most & ugrave point; high jump in the history with the Japanese skiing. A week later, in the individual competition, there was another triumph. Funaki won the 'Harada gold and bronze. Despite this precedent onusto of glory, the 'winter use of trampolines Hakuba & egrave; It was marginal (in total there are only 6 races of the World Cup, the 'last one in 2004). On the other hand the 'Hakuba jampu ky & # 333; & # 333 gij; It hosted the beauty of 31 Summer Grand Prix races, pi & ugrave; any other trampoline. The said primacy & egrave; son of the fact that he had organized two individual competitions in all seasons except 1999, when there was a team event. Despite dell''elevatissimo number of trials held, no jumper & egrave; He managed to impose itself more & ugrave; of two times. They have to memorize options 8 well those who have two wins. It 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 sj ø en (2014). It should therefore be stressed as six men have scored twice in the same season, while the two Japanese are the only ones who have excelled in two different summers. Among the athletes in activities & agrave; They won once also Janne Ahonen (2000), Robert Kranjec (2009), Daiki Ito (2010), Kamil Stoch (2010), Krzysztof Biegun (2013), Jernej Damjan (2013 ex aequo with Kasai) and Kento Sakuyama (2015) . The summer belongs to Simon Ammann official record that August 29, 2009 reached 136 meters (5 over the 'Hs). The pi & ugrave jump; longest ever realized belongs instead to Takanobu Okabe, that 26 February 2011 is even pushed to 140 meters in a Japanese home game.
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