Austrians keep on winning in the women's World Cup
Jan 12, 2020·Ski Jumping
After the victories of Chiara Hoelzl in Klingenthal and Marita Kramer on Saturday in Sapporo, Eva Pinkelnig now claimed the third win in a row for the Austrian ski jumpers. 31-year-old Pinkelnig won the second competition in Sapporo with 250.8 points, ahead of Norway's Maren Lundby and Daniela Iraschko-Stolz (AUT).
Her jumps of 135.5 m and 130 m earned Eva Pinkelnig a lead of more than eleven points over Lundby. It was the first World Cup win for Pinkelnig in her 68th competition. "It’s a great feeling to win, I had three great jumps together with the qualification round, the hill was prepared perfectly. I'm really happy about my results. It's my first World Cup win, I'm surprised and I can't believe it. I woke up today and I had a good feeling.
Maren Lundby, who remains the overall World Cup leader, repeated her second place from yesterday's competition. And like on Saturday, Lundby set a hill record. The Olympic champion landed at 139.5 m in the second round: "I’m happy about the second place. I had a really good jump in the second round. I need to continue working, but my jumps are stable. I need to take all the experiences to Zao with me."
With Daniela Iraschko-Stolz, the third place also went to an Austrian athlete. Iraschko-Stolz moved up from 12th to third with a jump of 135.5 m in the final round. "I’m surprised because after the first round I was 12th, the second jump was pretty good. Good jumps do not happen so often to me lately but I'm looking forward to Zao. Today an Austrian won again, so maybe I will do it in Zao."
The next great result for the Austrian team was completed by Chiara Hoelzl in fourth, Marita Kramer, who won on Saturday, in eighth and Jacqueline Seifriedsberger in eleventh.
Local hero Sara Takanashi was the best Japanese in fifth, followed by her teammate Yuki Ito. Sofia Tikhonova and Irina Avvakumova of Russia finished ninth and tenth.
Katharina Althaus was the best of the Germans in 12th, Luisa Goerlich and Juliane Seyfarth followed right behind her in 13th and 14th.
The women's World Cup continues next weekend with three competitions (two individual, one team) in Zao (JPN).
