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KYODO Feb 1, 2021
Berlin – Sara Takanashi placed second, her best performance this season, at the International Ski Federation women’s ski jumping World Cup competition in Titisee-Neustadt, Germany, on Sunday.
Takanashi scored a combined 263.5 points for her leaps of 136.5 and 134.5 meters and finished just 2.2 points behind Austrian Marita Kramer, who won for the second day in a row. Silje Opseth of Norway finished third.
The 24-year-old Takanashi returned to the podium for the second time this season and 102nd time in her career. She placed third in the World Cup opener in Austria in December.
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.
Kramer victorious again at Titisee-Neustadt Ski Jumping World Cup Sunday, 31 January 2021
Marita Kramer has further enhanced her reputation as one of ski jumping s ascending stars by making it back-to-back International Ski Federation (FIS) women s Ski Jumping World Cup wins in Titisee-Neustadt.
The 19-year-old Austrian jumped 137.5 metres in round one - the biggest leap of the day - to score 137.8 points and lead at the halfway stage in Germany.
A second jump of 135m and 127.9 points was enough to secure a narrow win over Olympic medallist Sara Takanashi of Japan.
Takanashi received scores that were 1.6 and 0.6 below Kramer s marks, and was then 10.3 points ahead of Norway s Silje Opseth in third place.
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.
Marita Kramer wins in Ramsau
After winning the qualification yesterday, the young Marita Kramer (AUT) won the World Cup today and took for the first-time ever the yellow bib. For this 2020/21 World Cup season’s kick off, Slovenian Nika Kriznar came second ahead of Japanese Sara Takanashi.
Already in very good shape during qualification yesterday, Marita Kramer (AUT) won again today with two jumps of 94 m and 96 m, scoring 253.6 points. Registering the record of the hill with the second jump, she explained that the trainings with the team have been slightly changed, leading her to better jumps. Second yesterday already, Slovenian Nika Kriznar kept also this position today with her longest jump of 94 m achieving a total of 245.1 points with two stable jumps and a very happy face.