The quartet around ski jumper Selina Freitag could not defend the title, but got bronze in team jumping. The Norwegian hosts celebrated gold.
The German ski jumpers continue to ensure a good mood at the Nordic Ski World Cup in Trondheim. After Selina’s silver medal was duly celebrated on Friday evening, the next party could be booked on Saturday. The quartet with Friday, Agnes Reisch, Juliane Seyfarth and Katharina Schmid missed the title defense, but was happy about the World Cup bronze. “I think we did it really well today“Shorted on Friday after her second medal at the ZDF microphone.”Now the whole team can be celebrated” and “We will toast it. “
Gold went to the strong Norwegians who confidently conducted the competition under the cheers of domestic fans. The Austrian quartet won silver.
Close fight for top positions
In the fight for a good starting position for the second round, Seyfarth presented 93.5 meters. Schmid, who has achieved numerous titles in recent years, has not yet been able to call up its best form in Trondheim. Nevertheless, the record world champion also pulled a decent first jump down with 91.5 meters. “It felt really good“, said Schmid, who trusted the team strength.
Rightly so! Because Reisch then really hit one. 99.5 meters and good grades brought the DSV quartet behind Norway and Austria on a podium course. According to the motto of the 25-year-old on Saturday: “I let it run today. “Silver medallist Friday came to 95.5 meters and brought Team Germany in second place behind Norway around bronze winner Anna Odine Ström and Eirin Maria Kvandal. 5.6 points were missing in one place. Austria with Jaqueline Seifriedsberger and Eva Pinkelnig were 8.9 points back.
Nerve -wracking final
Seyfarth (79) left a few meters in her second jump. Since Ström (Nor) and Eder (AUT) delivered with 102 and 95.5 meters, Germany slipped to third place. What did Schmid do? At 86 meters, she could not start the big attack forward. “I would have liked to hand over differently“, said the Oberstdorfer.”Only thoughs helps“.
For the red and white-red neighbors and the hosts, things went much better. Julia Mühlbacher flew to 91.5 meters, Ingvild SynnoEve Midtskogen landed after 94.5 meters.
Bronze should be possible
The hopes were on Reisch and Friday. It was not a bad leap from Reisch (90m), but it became closely in the fight for the color of the medal. Seifriedsberger (96) shortened the distance on Norway with Heidi Dyhre Traaserud (89m) to 9.7 points. Germany was already 56.6 points behind gold. Bronze was still in there.
The DSV team was able to rely on the show jumper Selina Freitag. Regardless of the pressure, it flew to 96 meters. But Pinkelnig showed 92 meters and the overall constant presentation of the OSV quartet brought silver. Norway’s star jumper Kvandal then made gold perfect at 95 meters.