Andrzej Stękała is the runner-up in Zakopane

Ryoyu Kobayashi won his first ski jumping World Cup victory after a long break. The Japanese won his first victory on Saturday in Zakopane from 29 of December 2019 won the opening of the Four Hills in Oberstdorf. The second place was taken by Andrzej Stękała, and the third was Marius Lindvik from Norway.

It was 17. Ryoyu Kobayashi's World Cup victory, 24-puppet, which is currently tied with Noriaki Kasai. No Japanese ski jumper has won more World Cup competitions than these two. During heavy snowfall, Kobayashi was just ahead of Andrzej Stękała 0,3 point. "I'm really glad, that I could win today. Conditions were good despite the snowfall, because there was less wind than in recent competitions. When I jumped everything was fine. I hope, that tomorrow will be fine again. “, Said Kobayashi after the competition.

For Andrzej Stękała today's second place was the first World Cup podium in history. "I'm very happy with today's jumps and I'm very happy, that I stood on the podium in my hometown. The snowfall in the final round was a bit of a problem, but we got help from the hill team. I'll try to jump well again tomorrow, and then we'll see", he said.

Third place Marius Lindvik won the World Cup on the same hill just four weeks ago: “I like this hill and it suits my jumps very well. The conditions were not so difficult despite the snowfall, because they did a good job blowing the snow off the inrun track. Let's hope so, that tomorrow I will make two good jumps again, maybe like my second jump today. “

Anze Lanisek and Bor Pavlovcic from Slovenia finished fourth and fifth, and even more is possible for them in the second Sunday competition this weekend. Slovenian jumping is getting better and better.

World Cup leader, Halvor Egner Granerud, took seventh place, behind his teammate, Danielem Andre Tande, but was still able to increase his overall advantage, because his main opponents were behind him today. Granerud is close to winning the overall world title.

The Germans Markus Eisenbichler and Pius Paschke occupied 14. i 15. place. The form of the German team just over a week before the start of the World Cup in Oberstdorf (GER) is not good. Karl Geiger was 23., Severin Freund 30.
The best Austrian was Stefan Kraft in tenth place, Gregor Deschwanden and Simon Ammann from Switzerland took the lead 24 i 26 place.

The second competition in Zakopane will start on Sunday at 16:10