On the 20th of the Ski Jumping World Cup, a mixed group of two men and two men competed in Romania, and Japan was fourth.
The mixed jump group is a competition in which two men and women jump twice and compete for total points. It will be adopted as an Olympic event from next year's Beijing Games, and Japan is also expected to win medals.
The World Cup mixed group took place on the 20th in Romania on Normal Hill, a hill size of 97 meters.
In Japan, Ryoyu Kobayashi, Yukiya Sato, and women, who won the second victory of the season the day before and set the record for the most wins for Japanese men, stood on the podium for four consecutive races, and the day before We faced with Sara Takanashi and Nozomi Maruyama who won the championship.
In Japan, the first and third player Takanashi moved up one place with a big jump of 94 meters, and Kobayashi who flew after that also marked 94 meters, further moving up to 3rd place.
In the second round, which was only 0.7 points behind Austria in 4th place, the first player Maruyama and the second player Sato could not extend the flight distance, and the difference was widened to Austria to make the fourth player Kobayashi. I welcomed you.
Kobayashi made a powerful takeoff and decided to make a big jump of 96 meters approaching the hill size.
However, Japan was in 4th place with a total of 920.8 points, not reaching 3rd place Austria by 3.8 points.
The victory was Norway.
Kobayashi "It was fun and throbbing"
Ryoyu Kobayashi recalled, "Both of them weren't so bad in terms of content. It was fun and thrilling."
Regarding this season, he said, "I suffered from the content of the first half, but recently I have been able to make good jumps. I want to continue this." He said, "I think it is within the medal range for the Nordic World Championships starting next week in Germany." So I want to concentrate on the performance and have fun. "
Takanashi "Slightly in your own shape"
Sara Takanashi said, "The timing was delayed the first time, but I think that the second time was well matched. It's gradually becoming a form of my own jump, so I want to enter the world championship with a good flow." Was there.