Jan Hörl delighted an Austrian home crowd with victory at the third stop of the Four Hills tournament on Wednesday while Ryoyu Kobasyashi took the overall lead with another runner-up spot. Hörl soared 134 and 127.5 metres in difficult wind conditions at Innsbruck's Bergisel venue to claim his second career victory 8.8 points ahead of Japan's Kobayashi. Michael Hayböck gave Austria more joy in third. Kobayashi had also come second at the first two stops in Oberstdorf and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, a
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World championship winner Anze Lanisek of Slovenia won the second event of the ski jumping's Four Hills Tournament in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany on Monday. Lanisek jumped 136 and 137 metres for a total of 295.8 points to beat two-time Four Hills champion Ryoyu Kobayashi from Japan, who finished 3.2 points behind. Germany's favourite Andreas Wellinger, who claimed win last Friday in the first event in Oberstdorf, completed the podium in third. He still tops the overall standings, 1.8 points
Slovenian ski jumper Nika Prevc won the first event of the women's Two Nights Tour in Germany's Garmisch-Partenkirchen on Saturday. Prevc, who claimed her first-ever World Cup win earlier this month in Switzerland, jumped 133 and 130 metres for a total of 267.4 points. Norway's Eirin Maria Kvandal was second, 12.9 points behind Prevc, while Abigail Strate of Canada completed the podium in third. World Cup leader Joséphine Pagnier was seventh, while defending champion Eva Pinkelnig was fourth. Th
The German women's ski jumping team has somewhat mixed feelings about their upcoming inaugural Two Nights Tour at the two German venues for the men's Four Hills tournament. The women will compete on Saturday in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and on Monday, New Year's Day, in Oberstdorf. The men's order is the other way round, first Oberstdorf on Friday and then Garmisch on Monday, to be followed by the Austrian venues of Innsbruck on January 3 and Bischofshofen January 6. The women have calling for a fu