Nordic Skiingmale jumping - SGP 2016
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The 23 th edition of the Summer Grand Prix men, the summer version of the maximum jumping circuit on skis, take & agrave; off over the weekend from Courchevel. & nbsp;
Thursday 14 July 2016 7 minutes reading time
STORIAQueste competitions do not have the prestige of the World Cup, but they are treated as assigned to it valid points for the World Ranking List. However, in this 2016 will have double value, since & eacute; The points won by the athletes will be taken into consideration for the & rsquo; Olympic Quota Allocation List, or the qualifying list to Pyeong Chang Olympic Games in 2018.
In fact & rsquo; last luster summer competitions have become increasingly & ugrave; importance on the strategic plan, losing to memorize options consequently media appeal. & Nbsp; Many nations have sensed the opportunity & agrave; to use the GP as points of the tank for their athletes of the second band, which in this way in the summer can reach a sufficient score to ensure a share for all the & rsquo; winter. Those who have not understood it (like Poland in 2014 and especially the & rsquo; Austria in 2015) has paid the price throughout the following season.
By betting on the second lines, it is to memorize options not the stars of the World Cup and to realize just scroll down the & rsquo; register d & rsquo; gold winners. Even c & rsquo; & egrave; was a time when winning the Grand Prix was l & rsquo; anteroom to win the Crystal Ball, as witnessed by the success of Jakub Janda (2005), Adam Malysz (2006), Thomas Morgenstern (2007 and 2011), Gregor Schlierenzauer (2008 ), Simon Ammann (2009).
Since 2012 however the pedigree of the SGP winners & egrave; decidedly less noble, since & eacute; They read the names of Andreas Wank (2012), Andreas Wellinger (2013), Jernej Damjan (2014) and Kento Sakuyama (2015). This is because & eacute; the big sip their presence, leaving the glory to others.
LOCATIONVenendo location to d & rsquo; open, Courchevel & egrave; in effect a & ldquo; great classic & rdquo; the Summer Grand Prix, being entered on the calendar in 1997, the year in which & ndash; just as in the current one & ndash; He held in baptism top-level competitions of plastic.
The leg of the & nbsp; Rh & ocirc; ne-Alpes has to memorize options an unusual arrangement, since & eacute; historically it is positioned close of August. However, the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro have forced the FIS to overturn the GP calendar, anticipating the & rsquo; beginning to avoid bulky concomitances the media plan.
It garegger & agrave; on Tremplin au Praz (K120 / HS132), the structure was built in 1990 in view of the XVI Olympic Winter Games and still in its original shape, as from 2011 & egrave; It has been the subject of some modernization, without memorize options never suffer genuine restructuring.
If the 'winter use of & rsquo; & egrave facility; was minimal (after competitions in Albertville in 1992 was followed by only a test of the 'following year the World Cup), the level of Summer Grand Prix & egrave; was much more & ugrave; intense.
So far Courchevel were played more than 19 of the maximum circuit races on plastic & ndash; the only trampolines to have hosted the most & ugrave; are Hinterzarten (23) and Hakuba (31) & ndash; won by as many as 17 different athletes.
The only ones able to repeat its success were the Austrians Andreas widh & ouml; LZL, able to stand out 3 times (1999, 2001 and 2002), and Thomas Morgenstern, who imposed in 2005 and 2011.
There are nine jumpers in activities & agrave; to boast a success in Courchevel. It is Janne Ahonen (2000), Gregor Schlierenzauer (2006), Harri Olli (2008), Simon Ammann (2009), Daiki Ito (2010), Reruhi Shimizu (2012), Andreas Wellinger (2013), Andreas Stjernen (2014) and Severin Freund (2015).
The summer official record belongs to Kamil Stoch August 12, 2011 reached 137 meters (5 over the 'Hs). However a couple of weeks before, in a race of Continental Cup, Andreas Wank had gone beyond 50 centimeters, reaching 137.5 meters.
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