Lundby leaps to second consecutive World Cup win

BySportsbeat

Published 26/01/2019 at 14:06 GMT

A dominant performance from Olympic champion Maren Lundby ensured the Norwegian claimed back-to-back World Cup ski jumping victories in Rasnov.

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The 24-year-old, who claimed gold at PyeongChang 2018, leaped the furthest in both rounds to clinch top spot in Romania ahead of Germany's Katharina Althaus.

Lundby took to the front with a jump of 94 metres in the first round, before securing a comfortable win with an even better second jump of 95 metres for 247.8 points.

Althaus, the silver medallist in PyeongChang, finished 10.9 points behind the victor with jumps of 91.5m and 93m, while Sara Takanashi completed the podium.

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The Japanese jumper missed out on silver by the narrowest of margins after racking up 236.8 points from her two rounds with jumps of 92 and 94 metres, just 0.1 points behind Althaus.

It was Lundby's second consecutive World Cup win after her triumph in Zao and means she sits second in the overall standings on 688 points, with Althaus still top on 702 points.

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