Ski jumping, Four Hills Tournament: Karl Geiger disappointed in qualification in Garmisch-Partenkirchen

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Status: 12/31/2022 3:15 p.m

After his strong result in Oberstdorf, Karl Geiger suffered a setback before the New Year’s competition in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Philipp Raimund, on the other hand, underlined his strong form in the qualification.

After fourth place in Oberstdorf, Geiger traveled to Garmisch-Partenkirchen with great optimism and a challenge to Halvor Egner Granerud, but only managed 119 meters and 30th place in the qualification. The longest jump in the qualification was successful David Kubacki over 140.5 meters, Tournament favorite and Oberstdorf winner Granerud jumped 134.5 meters and finished sixth.

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Raimund and Schmid among the top ten

Philipp Raimund confirmed his strong impression from the start of the tour in Oberstdorf, when he was 14th. Despite poor conditions with a strong tailwind, he flew 126.5 meters and finished ninth as the best German. “He is blessed with bounce. That’s great to watch, sensational“Sport show expert Sven Hannawald praised.

Germany’s Karl Geiger wasn’t entirely happy with the performance in qualifying and explains the helmet change.

Stephan Leyhe and Constantin Schmid jumped a bit further with 128 meters, but due to the conditions they had fewer bonus points than Raimund. Schmid ended up being 0.9 points behind his teamcolleagues tenth, Leyhe qualified 14th for the New Year’s competition. “It was better than in Oberstdorf, but that’s probably because I like the hill more here. In the new year, I want to follow suit“Said the 30-year-old in an interview with Sportschau.

Eisenbichler on the way back

Markus Eisenbichler (131 meters) received the same number of points as Leyhe and was a little happier after his weak start in Oberstdorf. “Nothing went right in Oberstdorf and then you sometimes quarrel. But it was quickly eaten again, I also received many compliments. I want to continue like this in the competition, the feeling is slowly coming back now. It will be allright“Eisenbichler said.

The national coach Stefan Horngacher is satisfied after the qualification and ten qualified German ski jumpers and praises the best German Philipp Raimund.

After Markus Eisenbichler’s disappointing start to the tour, qualifying in Garmisch-Partenkirchen went much better.

Andreas Wellinger (19th) was unable to match his performance in Oberstdorf when he finished sixth, and only managed 126.5 meters. Pius Paschke (37th, 119.5 meters) struggled more in the competition.

Three other DSV athletes make it into the competition

From the national group that opened the qualification, Felix Hoffmann (28th, 123.5 meters), Martin Hamann (29th, 121 meters) and Luca Roth (49th, 115.5 meters) made it into the competition. On the other hand, David Siegel (55th, 116.5 meters) and Finn Braun (56th, 113.5 meters) were eliminated. Simon Spiewok was disqualified after his jump to 111 meters because the suit was too big.

The second station of the Four Hills Tournament is coming up and the DSV-Adler want to attack in Garmisch-Partenkirchen – the complete qualification of the ski jumpers.

After a strong start to the tour, it’s Polish team in focus. Kamil Stoch, David Kubacki and Piotr Zyla also want to cause a sensation at the next competitions.

The German ski jumper Felix Hofmann showed a good qualifying jump – despite difficult conditions.

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