(Zaō) Alexandria Loutitt became Canada’s first woman to stand on the top step of the podium at a ski jumping World Cup after winning a competition on the normal hill in Zao, Japan on Friday.
Loutitt, a Calgary native who is 19e birthday last Saturday, achieved his first World Cup podium of his career with a total of 240.3 points.
With this result, she led by more than eight points to the Austrian Eva Pinkelnig (231.8), who largely dominated the overall ranking of the World Cup. Chiara Kreuzer (228.6), also from Austria, completed the podium.
Loutitt was also the second Canadian to achieve one of the three World Cup podiums after Taylor Heinrich, who finished third in two competitions in Germany and Norway in 2015.
In 1983, Horst Bulau was the last Canadian ski jumper to win a World Cup jump for men. Steve Collins is the only other Canadian to have achieved such a feat at the 1980 World Cup.
Loutitt first made a first jump covering a distance of 98.5 meters for a score of 125.2 points, almost 10 points more than Pinkelnig (115.6), then second in the preliminary classification.
Loutitt secured his victory with a second jump from 95 meters with a score of 115.1. Pinky performed slightly better with a score of 116.2, but the gap Loutitt created after the first round was too big to close.
Another Canadian finished in the top 15, Abigail Strate (210.0), who placed 11the.
As of late 2022, Loutitt has continued to shine in the World Cup. In the past three weeks, she has competed in seven official World Cup competitions and finished in the top 10 six times, including fourth place on December 28 in Austria and December 1 in Slovenia.ah January.
At the Beijing Olympics, Loutitt finished third on the podium in the mixed team competition.
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