World champion Katharina Althaus has sealed second place in the
women's International Ski and Snowboard Federation Ski Jumping World
Cup after taking the gold medal in Lillehammer.
Ski jumps: Double victory for Slovenian female team in Austria sloveniatimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sloveniatimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Sara Takanashi, Marita Kramer and Silje Opseth
Austrian Marita Kramer won two days in a row the World Cup in Titisee-Neustadt, Germany. Following just behind with 2.2 difference, Japanese Sara Takanashi scored today 263.5 points. Hill record holder Silje Opseth from Norway finished third.
Confirming she prefers large hill, Marita Kramer posted the longest jump today in the first round with 137.5 m. « Win twice here is just mega cool, I am really happy. My jumps were on a very good level, I will just keep working like this and I am already looking forward to the next World Cup said the Austrian, keeping now clearly the yellow bib away from the others.
Difficult weather conditions
For the Women’s World Cup, Titisee-Neustadt in Germany is the first Large Hill in this season and definitely the largest ever. Ready to compete on this Hochfirstschanze hill of 142m, 57 women were jumping this afternoon. The rain was quite strong but this didn’t prevent the athletes to enjoy the hill for the first training round. Due to the strong wind and weather conditions, the jury decided to cancel the second training round and the qualification was postponed until tomorrow.
Postponed to 16.30 already because of difficult weather conditions, the first training was nevertheless carried out smoothly. Current leader Austrian Marita Kramer fell after landing but remained the best in the first (and only fully completed) training round with a jump of 136 m but the longest jump was posted by Slovenian Nika Kriznar with 143.5 m.
Slovenia Times
24. January, 2021
Ljubno ob Savinji – After Slovenia won the team Ski Jumping World Cup event for women in Ljubno ob Savinji on Saturday, Ema Klinec finished second in today’s individual event behind Eirin Maria Kvandal of Norway. Joining them on the podium with the third place is Marita Kramer of Austria.
Klinec was first after the first round, but Kvandal managed a much longer jump in the second to claim her first win in the World Cup.
The 19-year-old Norwegian won the event with a total of 244.2 points, only 1.4 points ahead of Klinec, while Kramer, the winner of the first World Cup event of the season in her native Ramsau, scored 238.1 points.