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Four Hills Tournament in Bischofshofen: strength wins qualification, violinist only 16.

2020-01-05T17:35:22.514Z


Dress rehearsal failed: Karl Geiger finished the qualification competition on the Paul Ausserleitner hill in Bischofshofen in 16th place. Stefan Kraft doubled the tour favorites.



Stefan Kraft won the qualification for the final jumping of the four-hill tour in Bischofshofen. With a set at 134.5 meters, the Austrian prevailed over Daiki Ito from Japan and Poland's Kamil Stoch. The German tour hope Karl Geiger reached only place 16 with 128 meters.

Geiger was not the only jumper from the quartet of favorites who struggled: Overall leader Dawid Kubacki ranked 13th with 131.5 meters. The last formally strong Marius Lindvik from Norway (133 meters) and last year's winner Ryoyu Kobayashi from Japan (134 meters) made it to ninth and sixth.

Shortened start-up, missed timing

The competition management had corrected the opening hatch in front of the top jumpers. It was correspondingly difficult for the favorites to achieve high distances. In addition, Geiger was annoyed by his timing when jumping: "I was pretty early with every jump," said the DSV jumper in the first and referred to the post-processing in the video analysis: "I now know what we will do."

Read here how Geiger struggled with his jumps after the wind lottery in Innsbruck: "The Bergisel can't help it"

In addition to Geiger, four other German starters qualified: Constantin Schmid (4th), Stephan Leyhe (5th), Markus Eisenbichler (12th) and Pius Paschke (18th) performed well and are all favored in their co-duels. Moritz Baer, ​​the sixth DSV jumper in the squad, refused to participate due to a cold.

Kraft Stefan Kraft wins the qualification in Bischofshofen. The DSV-Adler with a good team result. Karl Geiger has to "rework" overnight. # Ski jumping # 4hills #Bischofshofen pic.twitter.com/3Mi5C0kzse

- Sports Show (@sportschau) January 5, 2020

In the overall standings, Kubacki leads the final competition on Monday (5.15 p.m., TV: ARD and Eurosport, live ticker SPIEGEL) with 830.7 points ahead of Lindvik (821.6), Geiger (817.4) and Kobayashi (817.0) , Converted the Pole has a lead of about five meters over Lindvik, Geiger and Kobayashi would have to catch up seven and a half meters.

The top knockout duels of the first round , in which the winners and the five best losers qualify for the second round:

Karl Geiger - Simon Ammann
Dawid Kubacki - Cene Prevc
Ryoyu Kobayashi - Stefan Huber
Marius Lindvik - Sondre Wrestling
Stefan Kraft - Naoki Nakamura

Source: spiegel

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