Kobayashi misses second four wins tour
The fourth victory in the fourth competition was missed by the Japanese Ryoyu Kobayashi – he was only fifth (133.5 / 133.5 meters). With that, the World Cup leader flew on his second Grand Slam after 2018/2019, i.e. winning all competitions, over.
Eisenbichler is eighth
Markus Eisenbichler, who had won the qualification on Thursday afternoon, only flew 133 and 134 meters and was eighth of the day. The final on Thursday evening was overshadowed by Manuel Fettner’s fall, which the Austrian survived unharmed.
Horngacher: “Bit bitter”
“I’m a bit disappointed. Unfortunately, Karl was up there so late. Unfortunately, you saw that it didn’t work out. It’s a bit bitter”, said national coach Stefan Horngacher touched something emotionally right after jumping in the sports show.
Violinist: “Emotionally Difficult Tour”
Regarding Geiger, who with third place in Bischofshofen missed third place in the overall standings, the coach said: “I think he presented himself really well today, showed good jumps. The tour didn’t go 100 percent the way we wanted it to.” Geiger himself said: “That was a happy end. The second jump annoys me a bit, it was very late. But it was still a good competition, especially the first jump was really good. That was an emotionally difficult tour. I want to do better next year. “
Overall ranking: Granerud against Geiger
The floodlit tour finale in Salzburger Land was extremely exciting – also in the battle for the tour podium. After his jump to 140.5 meters, Geiger led the competition in the first round and moved up to third place in the overall standings. In the final, however, Granerud regained this third place and triumphed with 1,128.2 points ahead of Geiger (1,123.6 points) and Eisenbichler (1,117.6 points).
Kobayashi celebrates second overall victory
The second overall tour victory after 2019 was Kobayashi (1,162.3) points) after the first round. Second place went to the Norwegian Marius Lindvik (1,138.1 points). After the first round, Lindvik still had to worry, Geiger came up to 2.1 points on Lindvik with his strong jump. But the 23-year-old flew in the final on 139 meters and thus claimed his second, second overall place after 2020 ..
Schmid in the top 20
In jumping on Thursday, Geiger and Eisenbichler, three Germans made it into the final of the top 30: Constantin Schmid finished the tour with a place in the top 20: with a width of 130.5 meters and 130 meters, the 22-year-old finished 18th.
Pius Paschke survived the first pass with 130.5 meters over the Lucky loserRating. He could not hold 19th place with 126.0 meters in the final, he finished 24th.
Leyhe: “A little disappointed”
Stephan Leyhe with widths of 130 and 125.5 meters came in 26th. “Just to be there again is nice”, said Leyhe, who had to watch last season because of a torn cruciate ligament, in the sports show. “If you jump into the top 10 at the beginning of the tour, that’s the benchmark that you want to maintain. So I’m a little disappointed. I don’t know exactly why I’m currently ten meters short.”
Freund and Wellinger are out
Two Germans missed the final of the top 30. Severin Freund did not get off the take-off well and was eliminated with only 121.5 meters against the Norwegian Granerud (136.5 meters).
A had bad luckndreas Wellinger, who missed the final by 0.2 points. Like his direct competitor Stefan Kraft, he flew at 124 meters, but had to admit defeat by 0.2 points due to slightly poorer evaluation points and slightly better wind.