Marita Kramer wins in Ramsau
Dec 18, 2020·Ski Jumping
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.
The third place went to Japanese Sara Takanashi who was for the 101st time on the podium. She was surprised about her performance as she found her first jump not very good with 88 m. Due to this very particular year, she couldn't come and train in Europe as usual but had been doing her best as much as she could. Her teammate Yuki Ito finished fiftth.
With Ursa Bogataj finishing in fourth position (ninth in the second round), Slovenian jumpers came quite strong this evening.
Four Austrian finished in the Top 15 today with Daniela Iraschko-Stolz (6th), Chiara Hölzl (10th) and Sophie Sorschag (14th).
With her first jump of just 81.5 m, Maren Lundby of Norway finished 19th but came second in the second round. She finished 7th, loosing her yellow bib from last year. Teammate Silje Opseth (9th) and Anna Odine Stroem (11th) followed.
The best German was surprisingly Anna Rupprecht claiming her best position ever finishing 8th whereas Katharina Althaus (12th) and Selina Freitag finished in the top 13 tonight.
After this first competition in Austria, Marita Kramer leads the overall ranking of the World Cup with 100 points, 20 points ahead of Nika Kriznar. Sara Takanashi follows with 60 points. As Japan had to cancel events due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Cup will continue after a five-week break in Ljubno, on January 23rd.
