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Karl Geiger still has the best overall victory chances at the Four Hills Tournament. Thanks to a solid second race, the DSV star was fifth in the New Year’s competition in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The gap to winner Dawid Kubacki was still huge.
With a great run to catch up, Karl Geiger kept his dream of winning the Four Hills Tournament alive. Three days after his triumph in Oberstdorf, the world ski-flying champion jumped from 14th place to fifth in the triumph of defending Polish champion Dawid Kubacki at the New Year’s competition in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, so he still has every chance of winning the first German despite narrowly losing overall leadership. Tour win since Sven Hannawald 19 years ago. Markus Eisenbichler finished seventh on Friday.
After his first jump at 131.0 m in unfavorable winds, Geiger had lagged far behind, but then he appeared with anger in his stomach and conjured a strong 138.0 m from the Great Olympic Hill into the valley. In the end, with 259.9 points, he lacked half a point or 28 centimeters from another podium.
Kubacki wins ahead of Granerud
Kubacki jumped to the front with the hill record of 144.0 m in the second round (282.1 points) and caught Norwegian star Halvor Egner Granerud (274.9). Granerud took the tour lead exactly four points ahead of Geiger, who now travels as a challenger to the third station in Innsbruck. At the Bergisel, qualifying continues on Saturday, the penultimate competition on Sunday (starting at 1.30 pm on the t-online live ticker) will be pioneering.
Third and fourth place in “GAP” also went to the Poles through Piotr Zyla and Kamil Stoch, who showed that they had recovered from their short-term exclusion from Corona at Oberstdorf. World champion Eisenbichler was still in fourth place after the first round, but he couldn’t take advantage of that.
Since 2002 no DSV victory in Garmisch-Partenkirchen
This continued the longest lean period to tour Germany. Since Sven Hannawald, who was then the last DSV eagle to claim the overall victory, on January 1, 2002, there has been no home win at Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The German stars lacked the usual support of the sea of black, red and gold flags in the futuristic ski jump. Instead of the 21,000 fans who roared Geiger in second place last year, there was a huge void, as in every “Corona Tour” station.
National coach Stefan Horngacher was satisfied with the performance of his team in Garmisch-Patenkirchen. (Source: MIS / imago images)
Having entered the new year unspectacularly – “No New Year’s Eve party, nothing at all,” Horngacher had said – the DSV-Adler was rested and improved in spaciousness compared to Oberstdorf when only three Germans had reached the second round. . This time Martin Hamann won in 11th place and Pius Paschke in 13th place. Richard Freitag took his first World Cup points in almost 13 months as 27th. “The time has come to be vigilant, put your buttocks together and keep working,” said the Saxon.
Schmid completely off the paper
Former world champion Severin Freund, however, retired after his weakest jump on the tour at 39th. For Moritz Baer (43.) and David Siegel (45.) it was the end of the line at halftime. Constantin Schmid proved to be completely out of the role. The ski world runner-up with the team clearly missed the second round in 47th place, as in Oberstdorf.
The German aces lost one of their toughest competitors on New Year’s Eve. Norwegian Marius Lindvik, third after Oberstdorf and last year’s winner in Partenkirchen, was unable to participate in qualifying due to a severe toothache and was therefore eliminated for the second competition. “Under the circumstances, he is fine, he had a jaw operation last night and has to stay in Innsbruck hospital for two or three days,” Norway’s head coach Alexander Stoeckl told ARD.
