National coach Stefan Horngacher was correspondingly satisfied with the performance of his team: “We got off to a good start here on the Bergisel. We prepared a little more specifically and it was a lot better than last year. “
Markus Eisenbichler showed a good jump in less than optimal wind conditions and made it safely into the competition on Tuesday with 119 meters. “Already fits“This was the first brief summary of the best-placed German in the tour evaluation after eighth place. During training, he sailed at 139 meters in an updraft and thus one meter further than the official hill record. Since it was not an official competition at Eisenbichler, it will be his Far not recognized as a new record.
Two places behind him came Karl Geiger (119.5 meters), who after his bad luck in Garmisch-Partenkirchen only has outsider chances of overall victory. “I am satisfied so far. It wasn’t great now, but I hadn’t planned to do that for today either“, explained Geiger, who now”relaxed“wants to go into competition. He no longer feels any frustration, even if it was not easy to accept the situation.
Freund’s summer tinkering is paying off
Severin Freund was able to confirm his good training impressions and showed the best jump of the DSV-Eagle. With that he sat first at the top of the rankings. Only 31 jumpers later was Lovro Kos able to push him out of the Leaders Box. In the end, it was enough for him to position six.
“The jump today was really good, but I also had the conditions on my side. I had good pressure in the jump, otherwise it won’t work here on the hill. I’ve done my homework for today, I want to bring that over to tomorrow and then have fun in the competition“, explained the tour second from 2016, who had trained a lot in Innsbruck in the summer and had especially fine-tuned his approach position.
Leyhe and Schmid open the knockout duels
Stephan Leyhe survived the qualification with 119 meters in 24th just as easily as Constantin Schmid, who took a place behind him with the same distance. They will start the first two duels on Tuesday.
Andreas Wellinger also qualified for the competition. His 114 meters were enough for position 44. “The training jumps today were extremely cool and I didn’t notice much difference in qualifying either. But the way is right“The small hill Olympic champion of 2018 was nevertheless happy. He doesn’t think that Bergisel is something like a” mountain of fate “for the German team.”When the conditions are right, I really enjoy jumping here. I think ‘Mythos’ is exaggerated because Eisei and Karl have won a double victory here at the World Cup. Of course there have been falls here, but that can happen anywhere“, says Wellinger.
Stoch’s elimination brings Paschke into the competition
It got even tighter for Pius Paschke. He jumped further than Wellinger with an updraft with 117.5 meters, but got a few points deducted and therefore had to hope for a mistake by a competitor. Last year’s tour winner Kamil Stoch, who did not make it into the competition, did him a “favor”. For Paschke, the duel with Kobayashi is the 50th qualification.
Ipcioglu makes it back into the competition
Fatih Arda Ipcioglu also made it back into the knockout duels. He jumped 119 meters and was 38th. Ipcioglu had made ski jumping history at the start of the tour in Oberstdorf and was the first athlete from Turkey to get World Cup points.