Kramer back on top in Lillehammer
Dec 05, 2021·Ski Jumping
Current leader this season, Marita Kramer won tonight with jumps of 138 and 134,5 m, scoring 268.9 points on the HS140 in Lillehammer. “I was too late on my jump during qualification so I had to change, what I did. I am really happy to win again, and to jump on big hill” said the 20-year old Austrian. Winning yesterday, Katharina Althaus (GER) came 9,1 points after. Delighted to compete at home, and even more after last year’s lock down, Silje Opseth finished third.
Out of the 65 women taking part in the HS98 competition the day before, just 2did not take part of the event today. With the first Large Hill in the season, most of them were really looking forward to jumping on the olympic HS140.
Slovenia is now second in Nations Cup, despite Ema Klinec finishing fourth and Ursa Bogataj sixth. Nika Kriznar improved her jump in the final round, going from 9th position to 3rdbut she couldn’t get a better final place than seventh.
Sara Takanashi remained the best Japanese jumper ahead of Kaori Iwabuchi (12th)
With 56 points advance, Austria is now leading the Nations Cup. Additional to the yellow bib, the duo Eva Pinkelning (fifth) and Daniela Iraschko-Stolz, (nineth) had been always part of the top 10 in Norway this weekend. Jacqueline Seifriedsberger was 11th today.
World Cup continues next week-end in Klingenthal (GER). Qualification starts on December 9th and competition on December 10th, at 3pm.
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