The Austrian team wins the inauguration of the season in Wisła
The Austrian ski jumping team won the first competition of the World Cup season 2020/21 in Wisła (POL). With Michael Hayboeck, Philippem Aschenwaldem, Daniel Huber and Stefan Kraft, the team of the new coach Andreas Widhoelzl overtook Germany and Poland.
It was a good start to the season for ski jumpers in Wisła.
Przy dobrej pogodzie i bez kibiców na skoczni Adama-Małysza austriacka drużyna odniosła pierwsze zwycięstwo w pierwszym konkursie Pucharu Świata z Andreasem Widhoelzlem jako trenerem. „To był oczywiście bardzo dobry dzień, I was a little nervous, because it was my first competition as a coach. Now I am very pleased with the performances of the players, all four showed solid performances in the competition and I didn't try to do anything more, which was the basis of today's victory. Can't wait for tomorrow's individual competition, because we have two more contestants here, who are also able to jump at the same level “, said Andreas Widhoelzl, of course, satisfied after the competition.
Team Germany with Constantin Schmid, Piusem Paschke, With Karl Geiger and Markus Eisenbichler, she took second place behind the Austrians, who won in total 1078,0 points, just losing 8,7 punktu do dzisiejszych zwycięzców. Główny trener Stefan Horngacher powiedział po zawodach: "I'm very happy, we fought for the win and in the end it was really close. The conditions were great today, who must have jumped very well, to be among the best. As a team, we can take advantage of today's result.".
“It was exciting right to the end, we could have won today too. Feeling, that we're competing again and I'm on the podium is amazing. Happy birthday to Stephan Leyhe at home, let's hope, that his knee is fine", Karl Geiger said , who is one of the top contenders for the world championship title this winter.
The third place went to the hosts of Poland. Piotr Zyla, Klemens Muranka, Dawid Kubacki and Kamil Stoch jumped at a high level: “It was a very high-level competition, we gave our best as a team. Trzecie miejsce to dla nas duży sukces tegorocznej zimy in the first competition. I personally struggled with extreme headaches during the practice round and the competition, it was a tough fight for me and i hope so, that tomorrow I will feel better”.
With sum 1061,5 point, Poland was only 7,8 a point behind second place and had a real chance of winning until the very end.
The fourth place was taken by the team of Norway, followed by Japan, Slovenia, Russia and Switzerland.