2024-01-13 17:24:14
Austria’s duo Manuel Fettner and Jan Hörl took second place at the ski jumping Super Team World Cup competition in Wisla on Saturday. After three jumps each, the Tyrolean and Salzburg riders were 42.5 points behind the dominant Slovenians Lovro Kos/Anze Lanisek with 711.0 points and 2.0 points ahead of the Germans Stephan Leyhe/Andreas Wellinger. On Sunday (4 p.m.) World Cup leader Stefan Kraft will jump for his 108th World Cup individual podium finish at the opening stop of the Poland Tour.
Salzburg was spared for this event on Saturday. Each athlete in the two-person team had to jump three times, and the scores were settled following a total of six runs. The Austrians were only in fourth place behind the Slovenians, Norwegians and Germans in the first third break, so to speak, and were third before the final two rounds. Fettner then managed to improve to second place, and Hörl ultimately increased his lead over Leyhe and Wellinger by 0.2 points. This format will be Olympic for the first time at the 2026 Games.
“A really hot fight once morest the Germans,” said Fettner on ORF. “The Slovenians were simply a class too strong. I think we got the maximum out of them.” The 38-year-old said he was generally satisfied with his jumps, but the jump was not an easy one and might only be compared with the flying hill in Vikersund.” He was optimistic for the entire ÖSV team for Sunday, said Fettner. They had qualified He, Hörl and Kraft took places four, five and seven. With podium rank 108, Kraft would draw level with record holder Janne Ahonen (FIN).
For the Poles, who are used to success, they finished sixth at home thanks to Dawid Kubacki/Piotr Zyla, behind Norway and Japan, more than 80 points behind the Austrians. Their Tyrolean Poland coach Thomas Thurnbichler stated that there was an improvement following a weak season so far, that he also had the trust of association president Adam Malysz and that he had asked him for a five-year plan. According to an online specialist portal, jumper Jakob Wolny is said to have been suspended by the association this weekend because of public criticism of the trainer.
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