Norway victorious in team contest at Lahti Ski Jumping World Cup Saturday, 23 January 2021
Norway won their first team event of the men s International Ski Federation Ski Jumping World Cup season, with individual leader Halvor Egner Granerud top of the podium once again.
Marius Lindvik, Daniel-André Tande and Robert Johansson were also in the winning team in Lahti in Finland.
Granerud produced a monumental round-one jump of 130.0 metres to score 141.2 points, more than 10 more than any his team mates.
Two good jumps from Johansson also helped the quartet to win the gold medal via a final score of 1,024.2 points.
Poland came second as Piotr Żyła, Andrzej Stękała, Kamil Stoch and Dawid Kubacki finished with a score of 1,018.3.
Yukiya Sato with strong first day in Zakopane
Yukiya Sato
Japan s Yukiya Sato won the qualification in Zakopane on Friday evening. Sato posted a jump of 133 m (139.8 points) and took the top spot ahead of Markus Eisenbichler (132 m; 137.0 points) and local hero Andrzej Stekala (130 m; 135.8 points).
In freezing temperatures, Sato had already proven in training that he can jump extremely well on the Wielka Krokiew hill in Zakopane. After today s performance, Sato is now among the top favorites for the individual competition on Sunday. The first competition in Zakopane will be a team event on Saturday.
Besides Sato, also Markus Eisenbichler presented himself in top shape in the qualification. He was satisfied with his jump of 132 m: This was stable today, that s the start I wanted here. In the team event tomorrow we want to finish on top of the podium, but, of course, we also know that the competition is very strong. Severin Freund,
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Kamil Stoch dominates in Innsbruck
Kamil Stoch
Kamil Stoch of Poland won the third competition of the 69th 4-Hills-Tournament on Sunday. On the Bergisel in Innsbruck, the three-time Olympic champion clearly dominated the competition and came in ahead of Slovenia s Anze Lanisek and his teammate Dawid Kubacki.
Norway s Halvor Egner Granerud and the Bergisel-hill of Innsbruck will probably never become friends. The top favorite for the win today and overall was already defeated after the first half of the competition. Granerud was only 29th after the first round, in the end, he was able to move up 14 places, but he still lost the overall lead in the 4-Hills-Tournament. After the competition, Granerud was obviously very disappointed and needed a few minutes to find the words to describe what had happened. It felt like Innsbruck today, I m sorry to say that, but it felt like Innsbruck. I ve never had a good competition here, it s always the
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