ski jumping
Stefan Kraft and Daniel Tschofenig only had to let Poland go first at the premiere of the Super Team competition for men in Lake Placid. The red-white-red duo finished in second place on Saturday evening (local time) at the 1980 Olympiabakken behind the sovereign duo Piotr Zyla and Dawid Kubacki. Third place went to Naoki Nakamura and Ryoyu Kobayashi from Japan.
After the Austrian women, thanks to Chiara Kreuzer and Eva Pinkelnig, had won their premiere just under a month ago in Zao, Japan, Kraft and Tschofenig only found their champions in the two Poles, who were 13.2 points ahead of the victory in the secured the new Super Team competition held in three rounds. The Japanese duo, which, like the Austrians, pushed past Germany, was 24.1 points behind Poland, who were supported by hundreds of fans in the outrun.
“You can also finish fifth or sixth here, we’re happy to take the podium. There were six good jumps, but it’s always a fine line whether it’s going to be good or not,” said Kraft, who showed the longest jump of the competition in the first attempt with 130.5 m, but in the second round with a tailwind it was already 117.0 m touched down, in the ORF interview. In the decision, however, the 29-year-old secured second place for the Austrians with a jump of 128.5 m.
Kraft flies to 130.5 m
The man from Salzburg used the good conditions on his first jump to jump 130.5 m
Tschofenig twice on the podium
Tschofenig had laid the foundation stone for this, who followed seamlessly from his third place in the individual in the morning and after jumps on 127.0, 115.5 and 124.0 m he was able to celebrate two podium finishes in one day. “We can go to bed satisfied,” said the 20-year-old from Carinthia, who had been on the podium for the first time in an individual in the World Cup a few hours earlier behind Germany’s Andreas Wellinger and Kobayashi.
Tschofenig with a solid last jump
The third in the individual competition in the morning also showed his nerves of steel in the decision of the team competition
On Sunday (4.15 p.m. CET, live on ORF1 and in the live stream) another individual competition is on the program on the hill of the 1980 Winter Games in the US state of New York. Two competitions are scheduled for the coming weekend in Rasnov, Romania, before the World Championships in Planica.