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Daniela Iraschko-Stolz wins in Rasnov
Daniela Iraschko-Stolz won the ladies' World Cup competition in Rasnov (RUM). With jumps on 94 m and 92.5 m and a total of 239.1 points, the Austrian came in ahead of Japanese Sara Takanashi and Maren Lundby of Norway. Olympic Champion Carina Vogt came in eighth.
The winner was enthusiastic afterwards: “It’s a perfect place here for ski jumping, the best crowd of this World Cup season so far. The hill was well prepared and we are staying in a perfect hotel. My jumps were pretty good today. It was not so consistent in the training yesterday but for today I changed my inrun position and I felt much better. It worked hard and I’m really happy I could win again. This is the best season I’ve ever had.”
Takanashi back on the podium
Sara Takanashi had two jumps on 94 m for 234.9 points that earned her the second place. She said later: “I'm very motivated right now. I'm still not satisfied with my jumps, but I'll keep on working on it.”
Maren Lundby, in the lead after the first round, was on the podium in the World Cup for the second time in her career with 94.5 m and 89 m and 230.9 points. She achieved her first podium result in Rasnov last year. Lundby said: “I felt good today, the start of the season was not so good for me. I was already jumping better last weekend and now I could further improve my performance. I think that the second jump was not as good as the first one, but even the first jump could have been better.”
Pinkelnig closely misses Top 3
Eva Pinkelnig, who jumped on 94 m and 91 m, closely missed her first World Cup podium and was fourth, 1.9 points behind Lundby. The fifth place went to Slovenia's Spela Rogelj, who scored 220.5 points with two jumps on 89.5 m. Rogelj came in 0.8 points ahead of her teammate Maja Vtic. Line Jahr achieved her second-best result this season in seventh with 219.4 points. Olympic Champion Carina Vogt, who won in Hinzenbach last weekend, finished eighth. Her teammate Juliane Seyfarth finished ninth with 215.1 points. This was her first Top 10 result in the World Cup. Japanese Yuki Ito followed in tenth with 214.7 points. Ulrike Graessler came in on a season-best eleventh place, American Nita Englund was 12th, ahead of Jacqueline Seifriedsberger.
Strong French team
Julia Clair and Coline Mattel achieved a good result for the French team in 14th and 15th, their teammate Lea Lemare scored World Cup points in 22nd. Julia Kykkaenen of Finland was 23rd, Irina Avvakumova was only 26th. While Evelyn Insam could score at least one World Cup point for Italy, Dana Haralambie closely missed the final round in her home competition in 32nd.
The second competition in Rasnov follows on Sunday at 12:30 pm CET.
The winner was enthusiastic afterwards: “It’s a perfect place here for ski jumping, the best crowd of this World Cup season so far. The hill was well prepared and we are staying in a perfect hotel. My jumps were pretty good today. It was not so consistent in the training yesterday but for today I changed my inrun position and I felt much better. It worked hard and I’m really happy I could win again. This is the best season I’ve ever had.”
Takanashi back on the podium
Sara Takanashi had two jumps on 94 m for 234.9 points that earned her the second place. She said later: “I'm very motivated right now. I'm still not satisfied with my jumps, but I'll keep on working on it.”
Maren Lundby, in the lead after the first round, was on the podium in the World Cup for the second time in her career with 94.5 m and 89 m and 230.9 points. She achieved her first podium result in Rasnov last year. Lundby said: “I felt good today, the start of the season was not so good for me. I was already jumping better last weekend and now I could further improve my performance. I think that the second jump was not as good as the first one, but even the first jump could have been better.”
Pinkelnig closely misses Top 3
Eva Pinkelnig, who jumped on 94 m and 91 m, closely missed her first World Cup podium and was fourth, 1.9 points behind Lundby. The fifth place went to Slovenia's Spela Rogelj, who scored 220.5 points with two jumps on 89.5 m. Rogelj came in 0.8 points ahead of her teammate Maja Vtic. Line Jahr achieved her second-best result this season in seventh with 219.4 points. Olympic Champion Carina Vogt, who won in Hinzenbach last weekend, finished eighth. Her teammate Juliane Seyfarth finished ninth with 215.1 points. This was her first Top 10 result in the World Cup. Japanese Yuki Ito followed in tenth with 214.7 points. Ulrike Graessler came in on a season-best eleventh place, American Nita Englund was 12th, ahead of Jacqueline Seifriedsberger.
Strong French team
Julia Clair and Coline Mattel achieved a good result for the French team in 14th and 15th, their teammate Lea Lemare scored World Cup points in 22nd. Julia Kykkaenen of Finland was 23rd, Irina Avvakumova was only 26th. While Evelyn Insam could score at least one World Cup point for Italy, Dana Haralambie closely missed the final round in her home competition in 32nd.
The second competition in Rasnov follows on Sunday at 12:30 pm CET.
Source: fis-ski.com
