The Austrian ski jumpers around overall World Cup winner Stefan Kraft also demonstrate their strength in the last team competition of the season. While Austria left the Slovenian hosts behind in just one round, the DSV quartet disappointed.
With a total of 803.8 points, the Austrian team secured victory in the last team competition of the World Cup season on Saturday morning. The quartet with Daniel Tschofenig, Michael Hayböck, Stefan Kraft and Daniel Huber scored a total of 803.8 points in Planica, Slovenia, beating the hosts from Slovenia (Lovro Kos, Domen Prevc, Timi Zajc, Peter Prevc; 793.3 points. ) through. Third place went to Team Norway (Robert Johansson, Benjamin Oestvold, Marius Lindvik, Johann Andre Forfang; 770.6 p.).
The best team of this season has proven its impressive strength in the last team competition of the winter. Because of the changeable wind conditions, the decision was made after just one round and the final round was canceled
German ski jumpers disappoint
The German ski jumpers also had no chance in the fight for the top places on the second day of the competition in Planica. Starting jumper Karl Geiger had to struggle with problems in the first round and only managed 202.5 meters. At this point, the German quartet was already almost 30 points behind the Austrians – the other jumpers Stephan Leyhe, Pius Paschke and Andreas Wellinger were unable to make up the gap in the subsequent rounds.
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“Today we didn’t manage to implement the things we set out to do. Only Pius Paschke had a great jump,” Stefan Horngacher analyzed afterwards.
Several falls overshadowed the penultimate competition
For the national coach, the result on that day was more of a secondary consideration: “I’ll be happy if everyone goes out without injuries today,” said Horngacher before the decision.
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The competition was overshadowed by several falls: first the American Dean Decker fell after landing, then Giovanni Bresadola. The Italian was unable to land his jump in a strong upwind, fell badly and had to be treated in the run-out of the jump for several minutes.
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On Sunday the test run starts at 8:30 a.m., before starting at 9:30 a.m. (everything live at skispringen.com) then the last individual competition at the end of the World Cup season is on the program.
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