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Hill record of victory: Dawid Kubacki won the New Years event in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Thanks to his second attempt at 144 meters, the Pole prevailed ahead of Halvor Egner Granerud and Piotr Zyla. The old record for the hill was 143.5 meters.
The best German was Karl Geiger. The Oberstdorf winner worked his way from 14th to fifth place with 138 meters in the second round. Geiger had to give up the overall lead to world cup leader Granerud. The Norwegian, who showed consistently strong jumps at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, is four points ahead of his pursuers Geiger.
“The first jump was a bit late,” Geiger said at ARD: “But overall, I’m satisfied, I didn’t think it would go that far.”
After the first round, tour favorite Granerud was still leading with 138.7 points ahead of Kubacki, the 2020 tour winner. Granerud had already shown the biggest jump in the rankings, but did not set a telemark . The best German after the first jump was Markus Eisenbichler in fourth place with 129.4 points, he slipped to seventh on the second attempt. In the general classification, Eisenbichler is fifth. Qualifying winner Anze Lanisek had to touch the snow when he landed and also had no chance of winning in the second round.
Of nine German jump shots, five went from knockout jumps to the second round. In addition to Geiger and Eisenbichler, Martin Hamann, Pius Paschke and Richard Freitag also made it to the top 30. Severin Freund, Moritz Baer, Constantin Schmid and David Siegel lost their first round matches.
Last year’s winner, Marius Lindvik, missed this year’s New Years competition due to a jaw operation. Even at the third stop of the Four Hills Tournament in Innsbruck (January 4), Lindvik will not be there, as coach Alexander Stöckl said at Eurosport. According to Stöckl, Lindvik is fine under the circumstances. It remains to be seen if he will be able to start over at the end of the tour on January 5-6 in Bischofshofen.
