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Goes to the New Year's competition as the winner of the qualification: Markus Eisenbichler
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The six-time ski jumping world champion Markus Eisenbichler has won the qualification for the New Year's competition of the 70th Four Hills Tournament in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Eisenbichler landed at 137 meters on New Year's Eve and, like World Cup leader Karl Geiger (135.5 meters), can look forward to third place with a good feeling for the first sporting highlight of 2022 on Saturday (2 p.m.; TV: ZDF and Eurosport) look.
World champion Stefan Kraft surprisingly missed the qualification as 59th, the Austrian has to bury all hopes for a tour.
Geiger is in fifth place in the overall standings, 6.1 points behind the leading Japanese Ryoyu Kobayashi (134 meters), who finished second in the qualification.
Eisenbichler is seventh, 20.9 points back.
Wellinger reports back
A total of nine DSV eagles are there.
Stephan Leyhe was ninth, ex-world champion Severin Freund confirmed his form in 17th.
Constantin Schmid in 20th and Pius Paschke in 29th also easily qualified.
Meanwhile, Olympic champion Andreas Wellinger reported back.
At the start of the tour in Oberstdorf, the 26-year-old missed qualification in 51st place, but this time it was just 47th.
Since Sven Hannawald on January 1st, 2002, no German jumper has won at Gudiberg.
A few days later, Hannawald also made the last German overall victory on the tour perfect.
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