Ski jumper Nika Prevc secures second consecutive Crystal Globe
Oslo, 13 March - After winning two World Championship golds and a silver less than a week ago, Slovenian ski jumping star Nika Prevc secured her second consecutive Crystal Globe by winning the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup in Oslo on Thursday two weeks before the end of the season.
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Nika Prevc victorious at Ski Jumping World Cup meet for women in Ljubno for the second day running.
Photo: Jure Makovec/STA
Prevc earned 1,533 points this season, surpassing runner up, Katharina Schmid of Germany by 455 points. Another German, Selina Freitag was third overall this season, having collected 1,041 points.
Prevc cemented her second victory in winning the large hill event in Oslo today. She delivered the longest jumps, earning 254.1 points.
Anna Odine Stroem of Norway in second place was 27.9 points behind Prevc, while her compatriot Eirin Maria Kvandal in third had a gap of 37.2 points.
Overall, Slovenia's Ema Klinec is in tenth place at the moment, while none of the rest have made it under the top 30 in the season's leaderboards.
Klinec was 13th today, 83.5 points behind Prevc.