The six-time ski jumping world champion Markus Eisenbichler has won the qualification for the New Year’s competition of the 70th Four Hills Tournament in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Eisenbichler landed at 137.0 m on New Year’s Eve and, like World Cup frontrunner Karl Geiger (135.5 m), can look forward to third place with a good feeling for the first sporting highlight of 2022 on Saturday (2 p.m. / ZDF and Eurosport).
Geiger is in fifth place in the overall standings, with 6.1 points behind the leading Japanese Ryoyu Kobayashi (134.0 m), who finished second in the qualification.
Eisenbichler is in seventh place exactly 20.9 points back. World champion Stefan Kraft surprisingly missed the qualification as 59th, the Austrian has to bury all hopes for a tour.
Nine DSV eagles take part in the New Year’s competition
A total of nine DSV eagles will take part in the 100th New Year’s competition in history. Stephan Leyhe was ninth, ex-world champion Severin Freund confirmed his good form in 17th. Constantin Schmid in 20th and Pius Paschke in 29th easily made it through to the qualification.
Olympic champion Andreas Wellinger is back. At the start in Oberstdorf, the 26-year-old had just missed qualification as 51st, but this time it was just 47th.
Justin Lisso (40th) and Felix Hoffmann (45th) made it into the competition from the six-member national group that was not yet in action at the start of the tour.
Since Sven Hannawald on January 1st, 2002, no German jumper has won at Gudiberg. A few days later, Hannawald also made the last German overall victory on the tour perfect.
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