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Karl Geiger in Innsbruck
Photo: Daniel Karmann / dpa
Germany's ski jumping hope Karl Geiger failed to qualify for the third stage of the Four Hills Tournament and was surprisingly eliminated.
The 29-year-old jumped just 108 meters on Tuesday and was eliminated in 51st place.
The best 50 jumpers qualified for jumping on Wednesday.
The competition in Innsbruck (1.30 p.m., TV: ARD and Eurosport) will therefore take place without the man from Oberstdorf.
"I didn't expect that," said national coach Stefan Horngacher on ARD.
For Geiger, who was fifth in the tour ranking so far, all hopes are pointing to a good place in the overall ranking.
In the outlet, he hung his head in disappointment when he saw the result on the monitor.
No German in the top ten
No other German made it into the top ten in the preliminary round on Tuesday.
Hopeful Philipp Raimund ended up in eleventh place.
Poland's Dawid Kubacki secured the qualifying victory ahead of compatriot Kamil Stoch and Slovenia's Anze Lanisek.
Overall leader Halvor Egner Granerud (Norway) struggled in difficult conditions and couldn't get past 13th place.
On the difficult hill at Bergisel, the Germans had often gambled away the tournament victory prematurely in recent years.
At the 2019 World Cup, when Markus Eisenbichler won gold in front of Geiger, things went much better.
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