Lake Placid, NY
July 4, 2009

The Soaring Saturday series was started a few years ago as a way for ski jumpers training in Lake Placid during the summer months to have some friendly competition and to put on a show for any visitors who happened to be touring the jumping complex on a Saturday. Sometimes there were modest cash prizes for the winners. The first Soaring Saturday competition of the 2009 summer season was held on July 4 with all of the skiers from the previous day's Annual Independence Day competition. The three jump, dial-a-start competition is (almost) distance-only. There are no style judges, but deductions are made for falls or for no telemark landing. Athletes pick any start that they want, so Anders is jumping with about 85 kphand Spencer with 90 kph. Athletes take 3 jumps and drop the poorer of the first two, but must use the third jump. All jumpers must have a telemark landing or they get docked 2 meters. so Tara jumped 104 meters but had no telemark landing...score was 102 for that jump. If a skier loses balance and drags his hands after landing, he loses 5 meters, like Connor Jacobson did. If a jumper completely falls then he gets no score at all, like Alex Madden did. It appears that only the top ten after the first two rounds were permitted to ski in the third "championship" round. Tara Garaghty-Moats beat the boys again, and posted the longest ride of the day.

 

FINAL RESULTS    Bib Athlete Name Jp-1 Jp-2 Sub-Total Jp-3 TOTAL -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. 10 Tara Geraghty-Moats 95.5 100.0 100.0 104.0-2 202.0 2. 3 Dan Englund 92.0 100.0 100.0 101.0 201.0 3. 14 Andrew Bliss 98.0 84.0 98.0 102.0-2 198.0 4. 18 Anders Johnson 75.0 101.0 101.0 96.0 197.0 5. 15 Cooper Dodds 96.0 92.0 96.0 96.0 192.0 6. 12 Pete Frenette 97.0 90.5 97.0 94.5 191.5 7. 5 Colin Delaney 90.5 96.0 96.0 94.0 190.0 8. 6 Nick Johnson 96.0 91.0 96.0 93.5 189.5 9. 2 Connor Jacobson 87.5 94.5 94.5 97.0-5 186.5 10. 11 Alex Madden 101.0-5 86.0 96.0 Fall 96.0 11. 8 Zach Daniels 94.0 88.0 94.0 94.0 12. 13 Chris Lamb 94.0 86.0 94.0 94.0 13. 9 AJ Brown 86.0 91.0 91.0 91.0 14. 17 Nick Fairall 77.0 91.0 91.0 91.0 15. 1 Spencer Knickerbocker 80.0 89.0 89.0 89.0 16. 7 Kris Kowalczyk 89.0 83.0 89.0 89.0 17. 4 Brian Wallace 79.0 86.0 86.0 86.0 18. 16 Alex Haupt 81.0 85.0 85.0 85.0 Copyright © 2009, All Rights Reserved [ NEXT RESULTS ] [ RESULTS INDEX ] [ INDEX ] [ HOME ] [ GEN INFO ] [ INSIDE INFO ]