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ÖSV’s second best eagle was Michael Hayböck in eighth place. Philipp Aschenwald in 14th and Daniel Huber in 17th also scored points at the World Cup. Jan Hörl and Maximilian Steiner did not make the top 30. Niklas Bachinger was the only Austrian who had not qualified for the World Cup.
Kraft, who returned to the World Cup entourage after a hiatus in Finland, had a positive balance. “I am very satisfied with the competition. The jumps were definitely not rockets, but very stable, very good, at a high level, so I am very satisfied with fifth place, ”said the two-time 2017 world champion from the normal big hill in Lahti. Rest with rest, training, and therapy for the ailing back did him good. Now it will continue next week in Willingen. Kraft: “This is a very cool hill, you can fly up to 150 meters there.”
Hayböck struggles with the second jump
Hayböck, who was still the best Austrian in sixth place after the first round, managed to finish in the top ten. “We were a few meters away. The first round was very liberating, today there was a clear improvement again ”, said Upper Austria. He struggled a bit with the second jump (“a little late in take off”) and said, “At some point I’d like to see more really good jumps.”
Granerud left Lahti with a bitter aftertaste: with maximum distances in both rounds, he would have been the clear winner of the day. But the 137.5-meter drop, just half a meter below the hill’s record, cost him total success. In Willingen, however, he can fully score again in two individual competitions.
Kramer in Ljubna on the podium
With the women in Ljubna, Marita Kramer reached the World Cup podium for the fourth time in her young career. The 19-year-old from Salzburg came third behind first-time winner Eirin Maria Kvandal from Norway and Ema Klinec from Slovenia. In his only second individual World Cup, Kvandal was on top for the first time with a narrow 1.4-point lead.
With Daniela Iraschko-Stolz (7th) and Sophie Sorschag (9th), another two ÖSV jumpers classified in the top ten. Ramsau’s winner Kramer, who had shone with 99 meters in the test run on the HS94 hill, was 6.1 points behind the winner with widths of 84.5 and 88.5 meters. “It wasn’t the easiest hill for me,” Kramer said. “All in all, the jumps were good, there was an internal improvement, and I think I can go home happy with that.”
Hölzl gets a second try
The competition was strange for Chiara Hölzl (23rd). He was allowed to repeat his attempt after a traffic light error (wrong red phase) and landed at 79.5 meters. With his 73 yards earlier, the out had threatened after the first round. At 76 meters, the second World Cup player from the previous year could not improve in the final. Lisa Eder was 19 years old.
Head coach Harald Rodlauer spoke of an overall successful weekend for his team: “We are looking very positively to the future, we know that we still have athletes who currently cannot reach their capabilities. We will work on it, especially at Hölzl Chiara. “
