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Halvor Egner Granerud remains the outstanding jumper of the Four Hills Tournament 2022/2023
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Halvor Egner Granerud has won the qualification for the final of the Four Hills Tournament in Bischofshofen.
The Norwegian prevailed on Thursday in the pouring rain in Pongau ahead of Poland's Dawid Kubacki and Slovenia's Anže Lanišek.
One day after the poor team result in Innsbruck, all seven athletes from the German ski jumping team qualified for the decisive competition this Friday (4.30 p.m. / ZDF and Eurosport).
Karl Geiger, who had missed the qualification on the Bergiselschanze, took 25th place.
Eisenbichler is self-critical
In addition to the man from Oberstdorf, Markus Eisenbichler, Andreas Wellinger, Philipp Raimund, Stephan Leyhe, Constantin Schmid and Pius Paschke will also be taking part in the Epiphany competition.
The big favorite for the overall victory is the confidently leading Granerud.
As the best German, Wellinger is in eighth place.
Eisenbichler wasn't really happy with his jump to 126 meters in the qualification.
“It's not the binding or anything.
It's just up to your own ability," he said on ZDF, referring to the material, which had been changed a bit.
The 31-year-old saw it pragmatically: "If I can get going with such a shit jump, then it'll be fine."
The knockout duels of the German ski jumpers:
Karl Geiger (25th) – Marius Lindvik (26th/Norway)
Andreas Wellinger (24th) – Naoki Nakamura (27th/Japan)
Stephan Leyhe (22nd) – Maximilian Ortner (29th/Austria)
Markus Eisenbichler (31st) – Daniel Tschofenig (20th/Austria)
Philipp Raimund (17th) – Danil Wassiljew (34th/Kazakhstan)
Pius Paschke (38th) – Constantin Schmid (13th)
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