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Defending Tour champion Dawid Kubacki won at Garmisch with a hill record. Philipp Aschenwald was the best Austrian in sixth place, Stefan Kraft disappointed in 28th. Halvor Egner Granerud leads the overall standings.
4:41 PM clock, January 1, 2021
Austrian ski jumpers did not get on the podium in the second competition of the Four Hills Tournament. Philipp aschenwald He landed in the New Year’s competition in Garmisch-Partenkirchen as the best man from ÖSV in sixth place, the Tyrolean is now sixth in the overall standings. His teammates around the 28th crashed again at the beginning of the year Stefan kraft did not reach the top. Defending touring champion secured victory Dawid Kubacki.
The Pole triumphed thanks to a new slope record of 144 meters in the second lap, clearly ahead of the Norwegian Halvor Egner Granerud. Previous World Cup dominator replaced Oberstdorf-Sieger Karl Geiger the tour lead, the German maintained the damage after a weak first round (14th) in fifth place behind the two poles Piotr Zyla and Kamil stoch within limits.
However, the former Kraft tour winner fell far back from 13th position due to his failed final jump. In Oberstdorf, the man from Salzburg was sixth. “Unfortunately it was a bad jump. I can’t say why it failed, unfortunately it didn’t work out. All the other jumps were good, I don’t know where it’s coming from now, it really bothers me,” Kraft Clash said in Garmisch, where the tour winner 2015 had been in serious trouble for the past three years.
However, he is already looking forward to going to Innsbruck, emphasized the defending World Cup champion, who had been held back by a crown infection and back problems last winter. Aschenwald can certainly enter the home competition on Sunday much more positively after another position in the top ten. Zillertal were in good shape with two consistent jumps at Garmisch, but they had no chance against the best. “I am very satisfied with how the jumps were, but it bothered me for a moment because it was very close,” said Zillertal, who was less than three points from the podium, which is not too big.
The small gap with the best is encouraging. “It’s not much, maybe luck in Austria is on our side then,” the 25-year-old looked confidently ahead. In the overall standings of the circuit, he is already more than 17 points behind Stoch, who is now third behind Granerud and Geiger. Between Aschenwald and Stoch there are also Kubacki and the German in the general classification Markus Eisenbichler queued.
New leader Granerud is more than 24 points ahead of Aschenwald, the Norwegian clearly lost his success on the first day of the tour to 7.2 points behind Kubacki, but improved with Oberstdorf (fourth). “Of course I wanted to win, but today I got a lot of points back,” said the protégé of whom he had been outstanding with five wins in a row before the tour. Alexander stoeckl. Thanks to his record flight, Kubacki celebrated his fifth World Cup success, the first this winter after turbulence from the crown in the Polish camp before the start of the tour. “The win feels great, especially with the hill record. I’m very happy and I’m back in the game on the tour,” said the defending champion, who was 15th at Oberstdorf.
As for Kraft, things didn’t go according to plan for the rest of the Austrians either. While Daniel Huber was 14th as ÖSV’s second best jumper, he sat down to Michael Hayboeck after the disappointment in Oberstdorf, the next brake. Fourth place in the World Ski Flying Championships missed the second round in 34th place. The Norwegian winner from the previous year was not at the start due to a wisdom tooth operation. Marius lindvik. Oberstdorf’s third hopes to return to Bischofshofen, but it is unlikely, according to his coach Stöckl.
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