On the 10th, the ski jumping World Cup was held in Germany with a mixed team of two men and two women, and Japan finished fifth.
The ski jumping mixed team is a competition in which two men and two women jump twice and compete for total points, and has been adopted as a new event since the Beijing Olympics held in February this year.
On the 10th, the World Cup mixed team was held in Germany on a large hill with a hill size of 142 meters, and Japan participated in four men, Ryoyu Kobayashi and Naomi Nakamura, and women, Yuki Ito and Sara Takanashi. .
Kobayashi, who is the first and second Japanese man to win the most individual wins in Japan with a total of 27 wins, was unable to increase his flight distance to 118.50 meters in a tailwind that was unfavorable for jumps.
The third person was Takanashi, who has 63 wins in total, the most among men and women, and marked 121.50 meters, but at this point he was 6th.
The fourth and final runner is Nakamura, who finished 3rd in the 4th individual event this season. It was a big delay with the 7th place in the team.
Even so, in the second round, where the top eight teams competed, Kobayashi extended his flight distance to 133 meters, and Takanashi also flew 129 meters 50, and both men's and women's aces made a comeback, and Japan moved up two places with a total of 842.6. and finished 5th.
Austria won with a total of 985.9, followed by Norway with a total of 959.2 and Germany with a total of 954.1.