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Favorites die at Bergisel: As Granerud and Geiger collide in the first round, Kamil Stoch overtakes the favorites and seizes the overall leadership of the Four Hills Tournament with his first win of the season.
With jumps of 127.5 and 130 meters, Kamil Stoch secured victory in the third competition of the Four Hills Tournament in Innsbruck. The Pole scored a total of 261.6 points over the famous Bergisel on Sunday and thus prevailed against Slovenian Anze Lanisek, who reached 127.5 and 123.5 meters (249.6 pts). The third place went to Dawid Kubacki with 126 and 127 meters (248.3 pts).
It was already turbulent in the first round. In changing conditions, the top two favorites battled for overall victory at the Four Hills Tournament: Halvor Egner Granerud and Karl Geiger won their knockout duels, but only finished 29th and 30th respectively at halftime.
Favorites failure
In the final, it was just about limiting the damage for both of them. Granerud finished the competition in 15th place after jumps at 116.5 and 127.5 meters, Geiger followed directly in 16th place with 117 and 128.5 meters. But the overall victory ambitions are history: with his first win of the season, Kamil takes over The overall leader of the Four Hills Tournament was hit, followed by compatriot Dawid Kubacki 15.2 points behind.
After the third competition, Karl Geiger is 24.7 points behind Stoch and 4.1 points behind Granerud in fourth place. “It’s quite sobering, quite bitter. It is quite difficult what is happening here today. I’m quite frustrated, “Karl Geiger said afterwards, visibly disappointed:” It’s over. “
Only three DSV ski jumpers in the final
The best German ski jumper was Markus Eisenbichler, who ranked sixth with 120.5 and 128.5 meters behind Pole Piotr Zyla (4th) and Yukiya Sato from Japan (5th). “I wanted to attack in the second round and I did. It was a brutally tough competition, but I got away with a black eye, ”said the Siegsdorf man, who is now fifth overall on the circuit.
Besides Geiger and Eisenbichler, only Martin Hamann from the German team made it to the final, occupying a strong 13th place with 130 and 124.5 meters.
Two Austrians in the top ten
It was better for the hosts as a team: six Austrians scored points at Bergisel. Stefan Kraft (8th) and Michael Hayböck (9th) landed in the top ten, but Austria’s hopeful Philipp Aschenwald fell short of 22nd. Record World Cup winner Gregor Schlierenzauer lost his duel by knockout against the Russian Mikhail Nazarov and retired shortly after the first round.
With Yukiya Sato (5th) and Ryoyu Kobayashi (7th), two Japanese and Swiss Gregor Deschwanden (10th) also landed in the top ten. Four-time Olympic champion Simon Ammann was eliminated in a duel with Geiger.
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After a day off, the Four Hills Tournament will continue on Tuesday at Bischofshofen. Then the two rounds of training will take place at Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze starting at 3 pm and starting at 4:30 pm (all live on skispringen.com) the qualification in the program.
More on this right here on skispringen.com.
Also interesting: The 68-year history of the Four Hills Tournament has produced many strange anecdotes. skispringen.com take a look back: you can read about drunk Finns, a fake winner, swiss fin gloves, “Eddie the Eagle” and a blackout at the beginning.
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