The set of Poles advanced to the Saturday competition in Oberstdorf. The highest ranked was Dawid Kubacki, who jumped 218.5 m and took eighth place. The Austrian Stefan Kraft turned out to be the best in qualifying. In Saturday’s test series, Kamil Stoch finished third after 232 meters, which left him behind.
WC in Oberstdorf. Five Poles in the second series, a great form of Kraft
The biggest surprise during the competition was the poor form of Halvor Egner Granerud, who scored 189.5 m and only took 35th place. The Austrian Stefan Kraft was definitely the best in Saturday’s competition, with jumps of 232 and 207 m, thus ahead of the two Slovenes – Ziga Jelar and Timi Zajc. Ryoyu Kobayashi remains the leader of the overall World Cup with 55 points ahead of Karl Geiger.
As many as five Poles were promoted to the second competition series. This is the first such situation since March 28 last year and the competition in Planica, which was noted by Adam Bucholz, journalist of the portal skijumping.pl. Piotr Żyła finished fifth in the top ten. Perhaps Kamil Stoch would have had a chance to stay in the TOP 10, but the judges decided to change the beam after a great jump. Stoch, Dawid Kubacki, Jakub Wolny and Andrzej Stękała finished the competition on the 12th, 18th, 25th and 26th place.
World Cup classification after Saturday’s competition in Oberstdorf:
- 1. Ryoyu Kobayashi (Japan) – 1504 points
- 2. Karl Geiger (Germany) – 1449 points (-55)
- 3. Halvor Egner Granerud (Norway) – 1176 points (-328)
- 4. Marius Lindvik (Norway) – 1111 points (-393)
- 5. Stefan Kraft (Austria) – 945 points (-559)
- 6. Markus Eisenbichler (Germany) – 914 points (-590)
- 7. Anze Lanisek (Slovenia) – 815 points (-689)
- 8. Jan Hoerl (Austria) – 645 points (-859)
- 9. Cene Prevc (Slovenia) – 619 points (-885)
- 10. Robert Johansson (Norway) – 531 points (-973)
- 17. Piotr Żyła (Poland) – 365 points (-1139)
- 18. Kamil Stoch (Poland) – 345 points (-1159)
- 34. Dawid Kubacki (Poland) – 161 points (-1343)
- 41. Paweł Wąsek (Poland) – 61 points (-1443)
- 53. Jakub Wolny (Poland) – 30 points (-1474)
- 63. Andrzej Stękała (Poland) – 8 points (-1496)
- 70. Aleksander Zniszczoł (Poland) – 5 points (-1499)
- 70. Stefan Hula (Poland) – 4 points (-1500)
Source: Sport
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