Winter Sports - Katharina Althaus claims impressive Ski Jump World Cup victory in Lillehammer

BySportsbeat

Updated 05/12/2021 at 00:00 GMT

The Olympic silver medallist fended off Marita Kramer to take victory. Althaus, a silver medallist in the NH at the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, scored 145.3 with her first jump and 132.8 with her second to finish on a combined total of 278.1 points.

Althaus claims Ski Jump World Cup victory in Lillehammer

Katharina Althaus claimed victory in the women's HS98 ski jump World Cup event in Lillehammer on Saturday evening.

Althaus, a silver medallist in the NH at the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, scored 145.3 with her first jump and 132.8 with her second to finish on a combined total of 278.1 points.

That was comfortably clear of Austria's Marita Kramer, who finished in second place behind the German with a total score of 273.2 after her two jumps, while Ursa Bogataj finished in third.

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The Slovenian scored a combined total of 272.3 to take the bronze medal ahead of Norway's Silje Ospeth.

Ospeth just missed out on a podium place on home snow as she finished in fourth on 268.7 points, with Slovenia's Nika Kriznar in fifth and Japan's Sara Takanashi in sixth.

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