Heavy rain and thunder disrupted the combined summer GP women’s race and canceled the men’s race.
The great promise of the United Minja Korhonen took the second good finish of the weekend in the summer gp races in Chaux-Neuve, France, on Sunday, when he was fifth.
There was more on offer, but the track made slippery by the heavy rain played tricks on Korhonen and many other competitors.
Korhonen skied a tasty 104.5 meters from the plastic hill and made it to the six kilometer roller skiing section in second place. He dropped out of the fight for the win as a result of a crash to fifth place and failed to grab his second podium finish of the weekend. On Saturday, the 17-year-old Finn was third.
– It rained such a storm on the skiing section that quite a few felt the surface of the asphalt. I myself wanted to dive twice to slightly lower levels. I hope it wasn’t worse than that, luckily. It was quite a race and quite a weather. There were good jumps on the hill, Korhonen summed up with the recording of the Ski Association.
Germany’s Nathalie Armbruster kiri to victory on Sunday, Slovenia Ema Volavsek was another and German Jenny Nowak third. Korhonen arrived at the finish line 50.8 seconds after the winner. The Finn was 42.6 seconds behind third place.
The number one hill section, Germany Svenja Würth aborted due to a crash. Otherwise, several falls and crashes were seen on the steep and eventually dangerous track.
The men were also supposed to compete on Sunday in Chaux-Neuve, but the roller skiing part was canceled due to heavy rain and thunder. Finland Ilkka Herola was 20s after the hill section.