Summer Grand Prix, stop in Sato in front of Kobayashi and Geiger. Bortolas triumphs in the Alpen Cup

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Summer Grand Prix, stop in Sato in front of Kobayashi and Geiger. Bortolas triumphs in the Alpen Cup

In Hinzenbach the penultimate round of the summer ski jumping circuit. The blue, on the other hand, takes the victory at Tschagguns in the Nordic combined race.

After the trip to the east between Kazakhstan and Russia, the Summer Grand Prix of ski jumping returns to the heart of the Alps with the men's race in Hinzenbach, staged on Saturday in the Austrian resort. Without the ruler Halvor Egner Granerud and almost the entire Norwegian team, a brace came from Japan, with Yukiya Sato ahead of the returning Ryoyu Kobayashi by 1.6 points, for an excellent podium completed by Karl Geiger (a only 2.5 pt from the winner). Without blues in the race, Schiffner confirms at the foot of the podium, with the revived Wellinger fifth. Next appointment, the last of the summer circuit, on Friday 1 and Saturday 2 October on the German ski jump in Klingenthal. ALPEN CUP Remaining in Austria, but speaking of Nordic combined with the Alpen Cup appointment in Tschagguns, a beautiful blue victory arrives thanks to Iacopo Bortolas, with Stefano Radovan completing the great day of the national team with Stefano Radovan in tenth place, while they concluded respectively in 52nd, 53rd and 60th place Manuel Facchin, Luca Libener and Bryan Venturini. The German Lenard Kersting completes the podium, 48 seconds behind Bortolas, and third place for Jiri Kovalinka at 50 ”. Same scenario also among the women in the Gundersen HS108 / 8 km, with Giada Delugan and Greta Pinzani respectively 12th and 13th and with the day dominated by the German Jenny Nowak, second the Slovenian Silva Verbic (+45 "3) and third the other German Nathalie Armbruster (+ 1''04 ”5). Returning to the jump, but always for the Alpen Cup circuit, in Kanderstag (Switzerland) new success for the very young Slovenian Nika Prevc, who preceded her compatriot Jerneja Repinc Zupancic and the German Anna-Fay Scharfenberg. First among the blue Martina Zanitzer, who finishes eleventh, while Noelia Vuerich ends in seventeenth place with Camilla Henni Comazzi 22nd.
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