Nordic combined: gold for Yuna Kasai in the women’s mass start
Late on Thursday afternoon, the women’s mass-start Nordic combined ski jumping competition at the Trondheim (Norway) World Championships took place on the small Norwegian hill. A few hours after a tight cross-country race, the suspense was immense ahead of this jumping round.
Under a sublime sunset, it was Japan who dominated the competition with Yuna Kasai’s jump to 96.5 metres. Third in the first part of the event, she climbed two places to become world champion in the mass start, the first in history.
Norway’s Gyda Westvold Hansen (94.5 metres) took silver on 2.3 points, while Haruka Kasai (96 metres), the gold medallist’s twin sister, was bronze on 5.4 points.
American Alexa Brabec (93 metres) took a magnificent fourth place, while Jenny Nowak (95 metres), Nathalie Armbruster (89 metres), Lisa Hirner (94 metres), Marte Leinan Lund (88 metres), Ingrid Laate (100.5 metres) and Ida Marie Hagen (83 metres) rounded out the top 10.
Disappointment for Léna Brocard, Marion Droz-Vincent in the top 30
For the French team, Léna Brocard, tenth after the bottom, less than 8 points off the lead, missed out with a short jump from 83.5 metres. This performance earned the 24-year-old from Dauphiné fifteenth place, which was still her best placing in the competition.
Marion Droz-Vincent (82 metres) finished twenty-eighth in her first career senior World Championships event.
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