Weekend Wrap-up from Hinterzarten

Mixed Team Competition - Saturday

Team Canada comprised of  Atsuko Tanaka, Dusty Korek, Alexandra Pretorius and Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes finished the Mixed Team Competition in fourth place with a total of 868.7 points, 4.6 points behind the Germans in 3rd.  Japan (907.6 points) took top honors, Slovenia (883.6 points) finished second, leap frogging from 4th to 2nd in the final round.  Canada was in a podium position for the majority of the competition but could not hang on in the final round of jumpers, coach Linsig explains it was a simple case of bad luck, in the entire competition three jumps were subject to tail wind, oddly enough it was Tanaka's second jump and both of Boyd-Clowes' competitive jumps.  Linsig said third and second spots were up for grabs but he is proud of what his team achieved.  
Alexandra followed her win on Friday with another dominating performance in the team comp, she was the top female competitor in the field with 242.2 points and jumps of 102.5 and 105.5, tying Takanashi for long ride of the day.

http://www.fis-ski.com/pdf/2014/JP/3715/2014JP3715RL.pdf

Men HS 108 - Sunday

The first men's Grand Prix of the season saw Germany's Richard Freitag (246.9 points) win ahead of another German Andreas Wellinger (244.9 points) with Slovenian Matjaz Pungetar (241.4 points) coming in third.  Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes scored his first Grand Prix points of the season placing 29th, with jumps of 98 and 96.5 metres respectively, Dusty Korek was 49th.

http://www.fis-ski.com/pdf/2014/JP/3717/2014JP3717RL.pdf

Up Next

Most of Team Canada will return home to Calgary to begin preparations for the Grand Prix in Courchevel, France August 14-15.  In Courchevel Alexandra will be wearing the gold bib as overall Grand Prix points leader as well as defending her victory from this venue last season.  Team Canada will also be looking forward to another crack at the podium in the mixed team competition.  Dusty Korek will be the lone Canadian competing in Wisla Poland this weekend, Dusty will train with the French team and then meet the rest of his teammates in Courchevel later in the month.