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The Finnish Federation announced the names of the athletes who take part in the Grand Prix competitions held in Hinzenbach and Klingenthal.
Friday 27 September 2013 3 minutes reading time
In the Austrian town will be used Janne Ahonen, Olli Muotka and the young Jarkko Määttä.
In Germany, however, leaves room for Määttä Janne Happonen.
For the twenty-nine of Kuopio, absent from international competition since the end of November 2012, it will be an important opportunity to confirm progress highlighted on the occasion of National leagues played in Lahti at the beginning of September. On this occasion, in fact, Happonen crushed the competition in both series jump proving to have fully recovered from knee problems that had held the post for several months.
The latest rounds of Grand Prix will be critical to the movement in view of the Finnish winter season since they're going to fix the quota available for the competitions of the World Cup that will precede the Four Hills Tournament. The objective of Olli Muotka and to Janne Ahonen is therefore to enter in the first 55 positions of the World Ranking List to allow the head coach Pekka Niemelä to deploy four athletes. At the moment, Muotka, a veteran of the encouraging performance of Almaty, occupies the 55th position of their ranking, while Janne Ahonen is in 58th place.
In the last two Finnish race of the season the team will be led by Toni Sarparanta, while the head coach Pekka Niemelä will remain at home for reasons currently unknown.
La gara di Grand Prix in programma ad Hinzenbach verrà trasmessa in diretta dal network satellitare EUROSPORT HD (canale 211 della piattaforma SKY) con collegamento alle ore 14:00 di domenica, 29 settembre.
Per quanto concerne, invece, la competizione di Klingenthal, il collegamento è fissato alle ore 15:25 di giovedì, 3 ottobre.
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