Iraschko takes women's ski jump title

Austria's Daniela Iraschko claimed the women's ski jumping World Championship today (Feb. 25) with a resounding 12.8 point margin over silver medalist Elena Runggaldier of Italy. The bronze went to Coline Mattel of France.

The U.S. got stung early when Lindsey Van ran into difficulty in her first jump and failed to qualify for the finals. Jessica Jerome led the U.S. jumpers in 14th, Sarah Hendrickson was 16th, Alissa Johnson 20th and Abby Hughes posted 24th. Canada's lone scorer was Taylor Henrich in 18th.

The blond and pink haired Iraschko has been dominant all year in Continental Cup jumping amassing a record of ten wins and five second place finishes in her 16 starts since the beginning of December. But her availability to jump at Oslo at the World Championships had been in question after a knee injury sustained in Zakopane just weeks ago. She waited until the final day of jump training before taking to the hill and got the best score of the day from a lower start.

The men held the qualifying portion of their medal competition on the 106 hill. Japan's Daiki Ito holds a narrow lead over Robert Kranjec of Slovenia with the medals being decided in tomorrow's competition.

Place	Oslo (NOR)	Discipline	HS106
Date	25.02.2011	Category	World Ski Championships
Race codex	3085	Gender	L
		TD Name	Kuusinen Eero (FIN)

Rank	Bib	FIS Code	Name	Year	Nation	Jump 1	Jump 2	Points
1	43	4130	IRASCHKO Daniela	1983	AUT	97.0	97.0	231.7
2	32	1921	RUNGGALDIER Elena	1990	ITA	97.5	93.5	218.9
3	42	5498	MATTEL Coline	1995	FRA	92.0	97.0	211.5
4	41	1913	LOGAR Eva	1991	SLO	91.0	88.5	197.9
5	34	4929	VTIC Maja	1988	SLO	88.5	97.0	196.0
6	33	6198	TAKANASHI Sara	1996	JPN	92.0	93.0	195.0
7	21	4538	WATASE Ayumi	1984	JPN	89.0	93.0	192.8
8	24	5388	INSAM Evelyn	1994	ITA	94.5	87.5	188.1
9	40	1953	FAISST Melanie	1990	GER	88.0	92.0	185.1
10	26	4893	JAHR Line	1984	NOR	89.5	84.5	181.3
11	12	5930	LUNDBY Maren	1994	NOR	89.5	85.5	180.5
12	15	4537	KASAI Yoshiko	1980	JPN	86.5	89.0	179.7
13	27	1912	DEMETZ Lisa	1989	ITA	92.5	83.0	177.9
14	39	4632	JEROME Jessica	1987	USA	84.0	90.0	177.8
15	22	5754	ITO Yuki	1994	JPN	89.0	85.0	177.1
16	25	5999	HENDRICKSON Sarah	1994	USA	90.5	84.0	177.0
17	18	5793	KYKKAENEN Julia	1994	FIN	91.5	82.0	176.4
18	13	6090	HENRICH Taylor	1995	CAN	84.5	92.0	175.9
19	36	4767	GRAESSLER Ulrike	1987	GER	94.0	79.5	171.4
20	19	4883	JOHNSON Alissa	1987	USA	91.0	81.0	169.0
21	31	5855	ROGELJ Spela	1994	SLO	89.5	85.0	167.1
22	28	4890	SAGEN Anette	1985	NOR	88.0	80.5	165.9
23	20	5015	VUIK Wendy	1988	NED	87.0	80.0	158.9
24	23	2682	HUGHES Abby	1989	USA	86.5	83.0	156.5
25	16	5387	WINDMUELLER Sabrina	1987	SUI	83.5	81.5	155.1
26	11	5428	ENGER Gyda	1993	NOR	78.5	84.5	152.1
27	10	1917	D AGOSTINA Roberta	1991	ITA	84.0	82.5	151.5
28	17	5483	DOLEZELOVA Michaela	1994	CZE	84.5	72.5	141.8
29	14	1914	PUSTKOVA Vladena	1992	CZE	80.5	78.5	141.4
30	29	1916	TEPES Anja	1991	SLO	83.0	73.5	135.5
31	37	1952	SEYFARTH Juliane	1990	GER	80.5		71.2
32	38	1909	SEIFRIEDSBERGER Jacqueline	1991	AUT	78.0		71.1
33	6	6013	LEMARE Lea	1996	FRA	75.5		67.3
34	35	4637	VAN Lindsey	1984	USA	75.0		61.4
35	30	1911	HAEFELE Anna	1989	GER	75.0		58.8
36	9	5707	MIKOVA Lucie	1994	CZE	72.0		55.6
37	8	6043	TAKTAEVA Irina	1991	RUS	71.5		50.4
38	1	5763	ZOTOVA Maria	1984	RUS	69.5		46.6
39	3	6599	MA Tong	1994	CHN	68.5		43.4
40	5	6598	LI Xueyao	1995	CHN	67.5		37.6
41	7	6265	VESCHEKOVA Anastasiya	1995	RUS	64.5		33.7
42	2	6602	JI Cheng	1993	CHN	57.5		22.7
43	4	6231	CUI Linlin	1993	CHN	52.0		3.0

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