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All the jumpers from the ÖSV team successfully completed qualification for the New Year’s competition in Garmisch on Thursday afternoon. Stefan Kraft finished fourth as the best Austrian. The jump takes place tomorrow from 2 pm
4.35 pm, December 31, 2020
After sixth place for Stefan kraft As the best Austrian at the start of the Four Hills Tournament, the ÖSV team aims for the podium at the New Year’s competition on Friday in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (2 pm / ORF 1 live). In the standings, Kraft was fourth behind the Slovenian Anze Lanisek, Norwegian Halvor Egner Granerud and german Markus Eisenbichler henceforth, only 2.5 points remained for first place. All Austrians reached the top 50 knockout matches.
Michael Hayboeck landed at rank 12, Daniel Huber the 15, Philipp aschenwald the 23, Markus Schiffner the 28th, Jan Hörl the 41 and Thomas lackner on 46. The first round of the second circuit competition brings ÖSV Schiffner’s duel against Aschenwald, Huber gets it Ziga jelar (SLO) what to do with Hayboeck Piotr Zyla (POL), Hörl with Johann Andre Forfang (NOR), Lackner winner with Oberstdorf Karl Geiger (GER) and force with Aleksander Zniszczol.
“Of course you look at the opponent in the duel, that’s exciting. But you have to focus on yourself,” Kraft said. “It was a lot of fun today, it was a great rating, just behind the first. I felt very good, I finished the old year well. ”The new year will be calm and quiet because of the corona pandemic, you definitely want to leave your back problems behind in the previous one.
The 27-year-old hides them as best as possible when he makes the leap. “But I have to be careful. I came up with a good plan, but I have no guarantees.let it not happen unexpectedly. “The relationship with the Olympic hill is also rich in difficult conflicts.” Ranks 13 (2020), 49 and 31 are from the last three years. In 2017, however, it sailed in third place on New Years Day.
The man from Salzburg also wants after the second competition in Germany and before continuing in Austria even at the top of the general classification. “At Oberstdorf it is always important that the view to the front is not too far. At 17 points from six jumps is fine, although that is not that important to me. I just want to jump to the front again at Garmisch.”
His teammate Hayböck had missed the final of the top 30 in Oberstdorf, by the end of the year he was the second best Austrian in the standings and was in better spirits again. “After the tough competition, the day off was not so good for me, it was a start you wouldn’t want. But here in Garmisch I found my way, it is a conciliatory end of the year.“
Aschenwald was second in the rankings last year., then 25. “Unfortunately, the first round of appraisal went up in my pants last year. The second was then tight,” he recalled. Maybe I’ll do it the other way around this time, as I was only 23 in qualifying.
Last year’s winner was not at the beginning Marius lindvikwho traveled to Innsbruck to see a doctor due to a severe toothache. The Norwegian finished third in the opening competition and is now just a spectator for now. Russian Danil Sadrejew tested positive for Covid-19 and was missing too.
