Combined Vinzenz Geiger won bronze from the normal hill at the World Cup in Trondheim in the gripping competition and thus won his second medal in the title fights in Norway.
The Oberstdorfer had to give up the Norwegian Jarl Magnus Riiber and Jens Luraas frequently with the German mixed team. It was the tenth World Cup title for record world champion Riiber.
Julian Schmid came in fourth place. The six -time world champion Johannes Rydzek, who contested his eighth World Cup and was there for the first time in Oslo in 2011, became seventh. In 2015 and 2017 he had won the last German World Cup gold from the normal hill.
“I had very good skis, I also thought that I did it very well tactically,” said Geiger in the “ZDF”: “But I just didn’t go.
Riiber, who won his ninth World Cup gold in the Mixed team on Friday in the victory in front of Germany, recently secured the title on the small ski jump three times in a row.
The top favorite had already led after ski jumping and was celebrated by thousands of fans in the granases of the ski. A lot was open due to the compact format with fixed intervals. After a jump from the normal ski jump, Schmid started twelve seconds behind the best combinator of the past few years. Geiger went as a sixth 26 seconds behind the leading cross -country race.
“The jump was very good. The starting position fits. Now it is time to just fight while running,” said Schmid before running on “ZDF”. “I think it will be a great, tight race. I’m looking forward to it.” He should be right with his racing forecast.
Tight races with a strong top group
Schmid put a pace from the start and sat in second place early. After about half of the route, the 25-year-old concluded to Riiber. He was not the only one: it formed a larger top group, which also included Geiger. National coach Eric Frenzel was very satisfied with the tactics and performance of his top athletes during the racing.
“You can be very happy about third place,” said Frenzel. But they had been flirted with an even “happier end”.