In Lahti, the German ski jumpers confirm their upward trend in singles. However, little works on Sunday in the Super Team competition.
Individually strong, shaky together: The German ski jumpers only confirmed their upward trend to a limited extent on the previous weekend of a long World Cup season. In Finnish Lahti, Andreas Wellinger and Philipp Raimund surprisingly missed the podium in the super team competition. On Saturday, the fifth Raimund and the sixth Wellinger were still convincing as soloists at the farewell performance of Stephan Leyhe.
“We left too many feathers, forgiven a few meters in every jump. The river and the energy swept out of the individually,” said Wellinger in the “ARD”. Raimund said: “I’m pretty flat, stood a little next to the trail. That was Saublöd.” With Wellinger, who had recently won the RAW-Air tour, the energy was there: “From me, the season could go further.” However, the quality was missing.
“It wasn’t good,” said national coach Stefan Horngacher. After three rounds on the Salpauselkä-Sschanze, Wellinger (123.0+126.5+126.0) and Raimund (121.0+120.0+118.5) with 762.1 points were surprisingly significantly behind the top nations-the equivalent of 22 meters was missing. The victory went to the Slovenes Anze Lanisek and Lovro Kos (813.4) off Austria (809.3) and Japan (802.5).
Wellinger and Pius Paschke won the only super team competition of the season in Titisee-Neustadt in December. At the event, which will replace the usual team competition with four jumpers from 2026 at Olympia, two athletes per team compete against each other.
Lanisek won in individual jumping
Lanisek had already won the individual competition on Saturday. With flights to 131.0 and 128.0 m (276.9 points), he celebrated his first win of the season and the seventh World Cup success of his career. The Austrian Stefan Kraft (270.8) was second in front of Poland Pawel Waewel (263.9).
Raimund (262.1/125.0+127.0), most recently in Oslo fifth, flew by the equivalent of only one meter past his second World Cup platform. Wellinger, who had won the mixed team twice in the 2017 World Cup silver and gold in 2017, was only just behind the podium with 261.5 points. The significantly improved five -time winner of the season Paschke came in twelve, Karl Geiger took 13th place.
In the fight for the overall World Cup, Austria’s tour winner Daniel Tschofenig expanded his lead over his teammate Jan Hörl, who was only 15. Tschofenig goes with a cushion of 114 points on Hörl in the last two individual competitions this coming weekend in the Slovenian Planica. There are still a maximum of 200 points to get there, with Tschofenig can hardly be intercepted.