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Bis Sara Takanashi in Nizhny Tagil

Saturday 14 September 2013 4 minutes reading time

As widely expected after the clear success of yesterday, Sara Takanashi won a landslide victory in the second race of the Grand Prix of Nizhny Tagil, which took place opposite conditions with respect to competition on Friday (today the wind has blown the front to the athletes, while in first test was blowing at your back). The Japanese triumphed by a margin 13.7 points on the French Coline Mattel, again relegated to second place. Germany's Katharina Althaus finished third, recovering three positions compared to the first series, going back in the best way from the disappointment of the previous day where she had been off the podium for only eight tenths of a point. The seventeen of Oberstdorf, for the first time in the top-three in a race for maximum circuit, however, has paid 28.2 lengths to the winner. The front air has certainly helped the technical characteristics of some athletes, starting with the Austrian Chiara HÃ¶lzl, fourth, ahead of the Canadian Atsuko Tanaka and Slovenian Katja Pozun. Disappointed day of the Russian Irina Avvakumova, slipped to seventh place after completing the first series in third place. Among those who have benefited from the weather conditions there is also the Finnish KykkÃ¤nen Julia, whose ninth place allows her to relaunch a view to qualifying for the Olympic Games. All Italian have closed in the points, but in the light of the context of the bid overall performance - even higher than that of Friday - remains somewhat opaque. The best blue was Evelyn Insam, eleventh. Lisa Demetz she finished fourteenth, Elena Runggaldier eighteenth, Manuela Malsiner twenty-first and twenty-sixth Roberta D'Agostina. The Grand Prix women will end next week in Almaty, Kazakhstan, where it will be held the last two races. Sara Takanashi has put a serious threat to the overall standings with 325 points where controls. The only one that can annoy you Coline Mattel, but the Frenchman to 114 lengths. Therefore, even in case of a double victory of the transalpine, warder will simply close twice in the first six to win the second consecutive GP. As a side note should be noted that the German Ulrike Grassler yesterday competed with abdominal pain, worsened considerably in the night. Transported to the hospital, the twenty six year old was diagnosed with acute appendicitis. The teutonica accordingly is finished under the knife and the operation is in the best ways.

Francesco Paone

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