Almaty for the third time took the world championship in ski jumping FIS Ski Jumping Grand Prix.
The competition was attended by 140 athletes from 18 countries: Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Canada, Korea, Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia, Russia, Slovenia, USA, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Japan and Kazakhstan.
The leader of the first day of competition among men became Norwegian athlete Bardal Andres, second place Slovenian sportsman of Damian Cernech, the three leaders locked Czech athlete Hayek Antonin.
Women took first place in the Japanese athlete Sarah Takanashi, second place – French Colin Mattel, the third place – the representative of Japan Yurina Yamada.
On the second day of competition took first place in the Slovenian athlete Pungercar Matthias, second place – athlete from Slovenia Damjan Jernej. The third – the Japanese Shimizu Rerucha.
Women took first place in the Japanese athlete Sarah Takanashi, in the second place athlete from Slovenia Pozun Kate, third place went to canadian athlete Tanaka, Atsuko.
Host Broadcaster – the company TVCom, Director of the broadcast – Tom Wiedmann (Germany), assistant Director Kirill Makeychev (Kazakhstan).
Translation was carried out in HD for the first time in Kazakhstan the survey was conducted immediately 2 jumps: 125 and K-90.
In addition, TVCom were the first to implement an online broadcast of the competition on the website www.komanda.asia