Kamil Stoch on the lowest place of the podium in Willingen
Norway's Halvor Egner Granerud won the first of two World Cup competitions in Willingen on Saturday. With distances 147,5 mi 145,5 m and total 285,5 1 point ahead of his teammate Daniel Andre Tande and Kamil Stoch.
Today's victory in Willingen was Granerud's seventh victory this winter and with 1106 In terms of points, the 24-year-old has a clear advantage over Markus Eisenbichler (828 points) and Kamil Stoch (721 points) in the general classification of the World Cup. “My jumps today were not perfect, but they were really good. I was also lucky with the wind conditions, that's why the margin was so large. I am very pleased with the work, which I made today, maybe I could jump a few meters further in both jumps. My goal for this season has always been to win the overall World Cup and I am very pleased, that I was able to extend my lead today after that, how I lost points in Zakopane and Lahti “, Halvor Egner said. Granerud.
His teammate, Daniel Andre Tande, finished the competition today in second place. Granerud and Tande also took first and second place in the competition in Titisee-Neustadt 10 January. “It's great to be on the podium again. My jumps have been getting better and better over the past few weeks. I hoped, that today I will defeat Graneruda, but tomorrow i have to try again", Tande said.
The three-time Olympic champion finished third Kamil Stoch. Stoch said after the competition: "I'm happy with my performance, a podium is always a nice reward. I think, I did a pretty good job today, my jumps were at a really high level, so i'm happy. The conditions were much better than yesterday, much more stable today, and the wind did not disturb at all ".
The surprise of the day was provided by the Slovenian Bor Pavlovcic, who finished fourth. Dawid Kubacki and Norwegian Marius Lindvik took fifth and sixth place, Ryoyu Kobayashi was seventh.
Markus Eisenbichler was again the best German, who took eighth place today. “Today was good, my form is stable. Eighth place, another result in the top ten, not bad, but when i see, how far I am behind others, I need to see, Why is it like that. My jumps are solid , they are not amazing, but they are fine, basically i'm happy ”, Eisenbichler said.
Four-time Olympic champion Simon Ammann from Switzerland achieved his best result of the season by far 12. place. Ammann has not scored a single World Cup point so far this winter, so today was finally a success, and within four weeks he also earned a spot on the Swiss team for the World Championships in Oberstdorf.
After three out of six jumps. Halvor Egner Granerud leads Willingen in the general classification / 6, followed by Tande and Dawid Kubacki.
The second competition in Willingen will start on Sunday at 16:15 CET.