A strong season opening for Marita Kramer
Nov 27, 2021·Ski Jumping
No doubt that Marita Kramer has positive vibes in Russia ! Winner of last Blue Bird tournament in March, she won once again tonight with more than 40 points advance on the second in this World Cup opening. "I trained very hard this summer and my goal this season is to perform on this level" explained the 20-years Austrian, who registered also the new hill record with 104.5 m on her first jump.
With 211.8 points, Slovenian Ema Klinec was happy of today’s podium after a difficult summer season. "It was the hardest reachable podium for me, my second jump was too agressive" she said, finishing 6th in the final round whereas she was second in the first one. Kramer’s teammate Daniela Iraschko-Stolz finished third, sharing for the first time the podium together with Sara. "When she started, she told me I could only stop jumping once we would be sharing the podium together" said laughting the oldest current jumper who just turned 38 last week.
Slovenian teammates were following with Ursa Bogataj, 4th and Nika Kriznar 8th, last year World Cup winner. German performed really well with three athletes in the top 10: Katharina Althaus remained the best jumper in the team, (5th), ahead of Juliane Seyfarth 9th and Pauline Hessler 10th, for who it is her best result so far in World Cup.
Holding the previous record since 2016, Japanese Sara Takanashi finished 6th tonight.
Others Austrian teammates performed pretty good. Lisa Eder, 7th, her best individual position in the World cup and Jacqueline Seifriedsberger (10th) after recovering from a long 2-year-injury. Quite surprising Eva Pinkelnig and Chiara Kreuzer, ex Hoelzl, did not manage to qualify tonight for the final round.
The ski Jumping World Cup continues tomorrow at 16.00 LOC, 12.00 CET
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