On January 1, local time in Slovenia, the 2021-2022 Ski Jumping World Cup in Lyubno ended. There were two women's standard finals, with Slovenian teenager Nika Kryžinar and Japan's Sarro Takanashi winning two matches, which was the first time this season that these two players won the championship.
The two finals of this competition adopt a knockout format, that is, according to the results of the qualifiers, the 50 players who advance to the tournament are divided into two groups for a duel, and the 5 best performers in the 25 winners and losers group advance to the second round, and the final ranking is determined by the total score of the two rounds.
In the first final, Slovenia's Kryžinal, who played at home, won the championship with a total score of 263.7 points to beat the austrian teenager Marita Cramer. Maritta finished second. Kryzhnal excelled last season but was in mediocre form in the new season, and the win proved that her strength is still at the top level.
Takashi Saro. Image from the official website of the International Snow Federation
In the next day's competition, Japan's Saro Takanashi, who has not performed well recently, also found her form, ranking first among all the players in the two rounds of jumping points, and successfully won the championship, which was also the first time she stood on the World Cup podium this season. Saro Takanashi has participated in two Winter Olympics and won a bronze medal in the women's individual standard platform event at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, making him a strong contender for gold medals at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
A total of 5 Chinese players participated in the tournament, and young players Peng Qingyue and Wang Starling yao advanced from the qualifiers in both competitions, but failed to enter the top 30.
Due to the cancellation of the two World Cups scheduled for Japan thereafter, according to the rules for obtaining qualification for the Beijing Winter Olympics, Lyubno Station also became the last race for women ski jumpers to earn Winter Olympic qualification points. After the end of the competition, in the latest qualification list announced by the International Snow Federation, China's Dong Bing scored 53 points and Peng Qingyue scored 25 points, but the official qualification announcement still needs to wait for the International Snow Federation to confirm.
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