Second victory for Lara Malsiner

After her first victory in Rasnov on Saturday, the Italian Lara Malsiner also won the second FIS Grand Prix of the weekend in Romania. Malsiner won by a narrow margin (1.7 points) ahead of Japan's Nozomi Maruyama. In third and fourth place were two more Italians, Annika Sieff and Martina Ambrosi.
“Today was a bit more difficult than yesterday because there was a certain expectation today. Nobody expected anything from me yesterday,” explained Lara Malsiner, who celebrated her second victory on Saturday just 24 hours after the first win of her career. “I tried not to think about it and just concentrate on myself and what I have to do and that is ski jumping. As I said yesterday, we have a really great atmosphere in the team and a very good team spirit, we grow together as a team and we push each other".

With her second success in 24 hours, Malsiner also took the lead in the overall Grand Prix standings. With 238 points, Malsiner leads the overall GP standings ahead of her teammate Annika Sieff (196 points) and Slovenia's Ema Klinec (194 points, 8th place today) ahead of the final Grand Prix competition in Klingenthal (GER).

Spectators can therefore expect an extremely exciting final at the Grand Prix final in Klingenthal in two weeks' time, as Japan's Sara Takanashi (180 points), who is in fourth place, can still win the Grand Prix.
Japan's Nozomi Maruyama took second place in the daily ranking. Maruyama was still in the lead after the first run.

“I was incredibly nervous before my second jump. I don't know whether I should be more happy about second place or whether I'm a bit disappointed that I lost the lead. But of course I'm very happy with second place, even though my performance yesterday was better,” said Maruyama.

With third place today (second place on Saturday), Annika Sieff also played a big part in the Italian team's outstanding performance this weekend. For the new coaches Harry Rodlauer and Romed Moroder, the summer could not be going better.

Annika Sieff explained: “I'm really happy with this weekend here in Rasnov. We have changed a lot of things with our new coaches and if I implement everything I set out to do, then I will make good jumps. But of course it will be more difficult again in winter when the entire world elite is at the start. But we'll see, we're working well and we're on the right track.

Fourth and fifth place in the daily rankings also went to the teams from Italy and Japan with Martina Ambrosi and Kurumi Ichinohe.

Nika Prevc, Tina Erzar and Ema Klinec finished 6th-8th for Slovenia, while Heidi Dyhre Traaserud was the best Norwegian in ninth place ahead of the two Americans Paige Jones and Josie Johnson.

The women's Grand Prix final will take place on Saturday, October 5th in Klingenthal. A mixed team competition will then follow on Sunday in Klingenthal.

Official result