The German ski jumpers took only a small step out of their big crisis in overseas. Andreas Wellinger ended up in Lake Placid as the best DSV eagle on Sunday, Karl Geiger followed in twelve.
In the victory of the Austrian Daniel Tschofenig, the team of national coach Stefan Horngacher remained two and a half weeks before the World Cup for the fifth time in a row without a top ten place.
“I am satisfied with the jumps, it was the right way,” said Wellinger in the ARD: “It would have been nice if more had jumped out with it.” Already on Saturday, the two -time Olympic champion was the 16th for the best German result.
Behind four-hill touring tournament Tschofenig, who won his eighth win of the season with jumps at 127.0 and 132.5 m, his teammate Jan Hörl (Austria) and Anze Lanisek (Slovenia) landed on the podium. The Germans, on the other hand, have been waiting for a podium for 13 individual competitions. A longer doldrum had last existed in the winter of 2007/08.
In the absence of the five -time winner Pius Paschke, Stephan Leyhe (26th) and Philipp Raimund (28th) made it at least into the second round. For Felix Hoffmann (32nd), however, in the Olympic location of 1932 and 1980, the end of the day.
On Saturday, the DSV eagles had received their worst World Cup result on a large hill for more than 14 years, only Wellinger made it under the top 20. A few hours later, Wellinger, Raimund, Selina Freitag and Agnes Reisch at least a surprising victory in the last Mixed competition in front of the World Cup.