Kento Sakuyama won the second race of Hakuba and is leading the Grand Prix

The second race of Hakuba has produced a result much more & ugrave; adhering to the values â€‹â€‹seen in training compared to what happened in the trial yesterday. Not surprisingly, it imposed itself with ease & agrave; Kento Sakuyama.

Sunday 30 August 2015 4 minutes reading time

The twenty-five Japanese had no rivals and won the first career victory in a competition of the maximum circuit, be it summer or winter, achieving the best score in both series and unplugging of nearly 12 points the second place. As expected the place of 'honor & egrave; He went to Taku Takeuchi, proved the most & ugrave; near Sakuyama even during workouts. The twenty-eight Japanese concluded so far behind the fellow, but still with a comfortable margin in the third. It should be noted that this is the fourth double of Japan in the history of the Summer Grand Prix, all came just to Hakuba. The 'last 1:00 to 2:00 of the Rising Sun went back to six years ago when Noriaki Kasai was imposed before Fumihisa Yumoto. Simon Ammann confirmed to be in great shape and & egrave; the 'man to have jumped more & ugrave; along ever. However the feedback of the judges (and the wind factor) have penalized and forced to settle for sixth place. The podium & egrave; then completed by Jakub Janda, yesterday even out of thirty, who preceded Jarkko M & auml; & auml; tt & auml; and a revived Robert Kranjec, which continued at the summit after his second place in the first test. The winner of Saturday, Michael Neumayer, it & egrave; placed eighth overtaken by Lukas Hlava. Predictably Sakuyama took the lead in the overall standings of the Grand Prix hoisting 346 points against the 280 of Freund, 249 and 171 of Kubacki of Peter Prevc (all absent). M & auml; & auml; tt & auml; & auml; & Egrave; climbed to fifth at 156, surpassing Zyla and Gangnes stop at 142. HAKUBA - HS 131 (II) 1. SAKUYAMA Kento (JPN) 265.22. Taku Takeuchi (JPN) 253.53. JANDA Jakub (CZE) 245.24. M & AUML; & AUML; TT & AUML; Jarkko (FIN) 244.45. Robert Kranjec (SLO) 244.16. Simon Ammann (SUI) 242.27. HLAVA Lukas (CZE) 241.58. NEUMAYER Michael (GER) 239.3 9. MATURE Jan (CZE) 236.6 10. SemeniÄ Anze (SLO) 234.1 Click here for complete results. Next week it races to Tchaikovsky, Russia. According to preliminary information, the field should be more & ugrave; rich than Hakuba Since & eacute; announcing the presence of Poland and Norway.

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