Sophie Sorschag won Saturday’s FIS Continental Cup competition in Notodden (HS98). The Austrian athlete triumphed with jumps of 89 m and 92.5 m. Luisa Goerlich was second and Julia Muehlbacher finished third.
Sophie Sorschag was in the lead after the first round. The standings leader reached 89 meters from the shortened inrun and overtook the second Luisa Goerlich (91 m) and the third Julia Muehlbacher (88 m). Just behind the top three were Hannah Wiegele (87 m), Josephin Laue (83.5 m) and Annika Belshaw (82.5 m).
In the final, Sophie Sorschag achieved 92.5 meters and triumphed with an advantage of 14.9 points over Luisa Goerlich (95 m) and 29.9 points over Julia Muehlbacher (89 m). Josephin Laue (88 m) was fourth, Michelle Goebel (83 m) was fifth and Annika Belshaw (81.5 m) was sixth.
Sophie Sorschag (345 points) leads in the FIS Continental Cup overall standings, ahead of Julia Muehlbacher (225 points) and Mariia Iakovleva (212 points).
The next FIS Continental Cup event will be held in a month, on January 21-22 at the Bergisel hill (HS128) in Innsbruck.