Yuki Ito, Yurina Yamada, Kaori Iwabuchi et la toute récente championne du monde de l'épreuve individuelle Sara Takanashi ont remporté la première médaille d'or attribuée dans l'histoire des mondiaux juniors à l'occasion d'un concours féminin par équipes.
Avec un total de 968 points, les Japonaises devancen l'Allemagne avec Ramona Straub, Svenja Würth, Katharina Althaus, Carina Vogt et la Slovénie qui alignait Ursa Bogataj, Ema Klinec, Spela Rogelj, Katja Pozun.
La France prend une bonne 5e place avec son quatuor Lea Lemare, Caroline Espiau, Julia Clair et une Coline Mattel qui a de nouveau très bien sauté aujourd'hui.
Neuf équipes sont classées dans ce concours.
Les réactions
Japan, first: “Even if our team was expected to be the favorite of this team event, we didn’t feel any additional pressure. We just believed in ourselves and we knew that we could rely on each other. There are only four of us competing but we have to mention the whole team that made the gold medal possible today. We definitely increased our self-confidence due to this result. And we would also like to thank the organizers who did a really great job by preparing the hill.”
Germany, second: “Of course we are very happy about winning the silver medal. The whole team did a great job and we were all able to show good jumps. Not least because so many Slovenians have been here around the hill it was great that we were able to beat the Slovenian team at the end. In general the atmosphere was great during the last days and so we can look back on a successful week from our point of view.”
Slovenia, third: “In some way we hoped to achieve a bit more today but now we are absolutely satisfied with this bronze medal. All of us did a good performance, so we can be proud of each other. We also like to say a big thank-you to the organizers because they laid the foundation of those fantastic competitions.”
Photo : Nordic Focus