The weekend competition in the World Cup in Sapporo continues. The good performance of the Poles in Friday’s competition allowed them to slightly reduce the gap to the Austrians in the Nations Cup. .
Podium without Poles, Austrians run away in the Nations Cup
Dawid Kubacki, Kamil Stoch, Piotr Żyła, Paweł Wsek and Aleksander Zniszczoł presented themselves in Saturday’s competition. Unexpectedly, the best of the Poles after the first round was Zniczczol, who after a jump of 141 meters was ranked 3rd. Kubacki was 5th, Stoch 7th, and Żyła was 20th at the halfway point. Only Wąsek did not advance to the second round, finishing the competition on
In the end, Kubacki was the best, taking 4th place. Stoch finished the competition in the 8th position, and Żyła advanced by as much as 11 places, which allowed him to take the final 9th place. In the second series, Zniszczol, who fell to 25th place, failed.
Stefan Kraft turned out to be the best in Saturday’s competition, and Daniel Tschofeniga (5th) and Manuel Fettner (6th) also entered the top ten. The great performances of the Austrians allowed them to significantly increase their lead in the Nations Cup classification. The rivals jumped ahead of the Poles by as much as 111 points, and their advantage is already 468 points in total. The third place is occupied by Norway with 2422 points.
Nations Cup standings after the second competition in Sapporo:
- Austria – 3138 points
- Poland – 2670 pts
- Norway – 2422 points
- Slovenia – 2152 points
- Germany – 1782 pts
- Japan – 571 pts
- Finland – 251 pts
- Italy – 189 pts
- US – 112 pts
- Switzerland – 73 pts
- Czech Republic – 51 pts
- Bulgaria – 51 pts
- Turkey – 16 pts
- Estonia – 15 pts
- Canada – 14 pts
- Kazakhstan – 2 pts
- Romania – 0 pts
Source: Sport
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