Salzburg, who recently won in Lahti and Lillehammer, finished eighth in Oslo, but is still clearly in the lead in the Raw Air series before the final on Sunday. Victory on Saturday went to Olympic triumphant Marius Lindvik, who with his fourth win of the season set the Norsker’s perfect Holmenkollen day.
Because before that, ski jumper Silje Opseth, cross-country skiing queen Therese Johaug and combined athlete Jarl Magnus Riiber had all won. In the decision, Lindvik caught the German half-time leader Markus Eisenbichler by 1.6 points. With Robert Johansson and Daniel Andre Tande, other Norwegians from coach Alexander Stöckl’s team finished third and fourth.
“Today was maybe a bit too much”
After intermediate fifth place and only just behind the leaders, Kraft lost a lot of ground and three positions in the second round. The ex-world champion said he probably risked too much. “It shows that it doesn’t work, but it was a totally solid competition, difficult, I think sometimes you have to attack and take risks, that often works, today it was maybe a bit too much,” said Kraft on ORF -Interview.
Although Kraft lost a few points in the Raw Air, he still leads 15.1 points ahead of World Cup leader Ryoyu Kobayashi before the three outstanding jumps and qualification. Because the Japanese was only sixth this time. “Three more jumps, now it’s getting interesting. I still want to show cool jumps, it will definitely be an exciting finale,” says Kraft, who realistically only Kobayashi can dispute his second Raw Air victory after 2017. The German Karl Geiger is already 26.7 points behind in third place.
The second best Austrian in the first Oslo competition was Jan Hörl in twelfth place, he made up six places in the final. For Manuel Fettner (15th), Philipp Aschenwald (17th) and Daniel Huber (21st) it went in the other direction.
Source: Nachrichten
