Nordic World Ski Championships in the live ticker: First medal in the sack - ski jumpers want to add more mixed

Nordic World Ski Championships: Karl Geiger broke the spell with his silver medal.

In mixed, the ski jumpers have the next chance on Sunday.

Oberstdorf - The knot has burst!

Ski jumper Karl Geiger * won the first medal for the German team at the Nordic World Ski Championships * in Oberstdorf with his silver coup.

On Sunday, from 5 p.m., the next precious metal should be added to the mixed.

The DSV * team is one of the favorites.

Nordic World Ski Championships in the live ticker: Ski jumper Geiger wins silver

Karl Geiger was once again reliable: The local hero secured the first medal for the German team at the Nordic World Championships in "his" Oberstdorf * and provided a collective sigh of relief with silver in ski jumping on the normal hill.

"I'm really speechless, I didn't see it coming," said the Bavarian violinist, who has long been known as the "Kleinschanzen-Karle" and who only had to admit defeat to the new world champion Piotr Zyla from Poland.

National coach Stefan Horngacher was also relieved: “We are all overjoyed that we have already won a medal in the first competition.

Karl's second jump was a real bomb. ”With 265.2 points, the DSV-Adler was only 180 centimeters short of surprise world champion Zyla (268.8), who had only two World Cup victories in his career and succeeded his compatriot Dawid Kubacki .

Nordic World Ski Championships in the live ticker: After ski jumping in mixed is to be celebrated

The next chance for a medal in mixed with two men and two women per team awaits on Sunday, where Geiger and Markus Eisenbichler * as well as Katharina Althaus and Anna Rupprecht will start.

The format is part of the World Cup program for the fifth time, and Germany has so far won three golds (2015, 2017, 2019) and one bronze (2013).

“The women have to improve their form a bit.

But I hope that we can fight for the medals, ”said Eisenbichler.

Geiger also saw it this way: “We'll celebrate after the mixed, I hope so.

But tonight there will be a beer first. ”

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