The overall World Cup leader was just able to avoid a fall on the large hill in difficult wind conditions in Lahti on Friday and did not finish higher than 49th place. The victory went to the Slovenian Lovro Kos, who triumphed ahead of the German Andreas Wellinger and the Japanese Ryoyu Kobayashi. Jan Hörl took fifth place as the best ÖSV jumper.
Kraft lost his left ski in the first round after the jump due to a gust of wind, resulting in an early landing at just 105 meters. The season dominator had previously only missed qualifying for the second round in 39th place in Willingen on February 3rd. Even then, the weather – wind and rain – thwarted his plans. “It felt like there was a lot of crosswind at the top, I never really got a flight system, which worked great twice before,” said the 30-year-old from Salzburg, who recently celebrated his 40th World Cup victory in Oberstdorf ski flying.
He felt like he did something similar to what he had done in the qualification he had previously won. “Somehow I caught a gust, and then ski jumping goes very quickly. That’s very, very bitter.” In the overall World Cup, Kraft’s lead (1,546 points) shrank to Kobayashi (1,277). Hörl is still fourth with 800 points. The 25-year-old made the longest jump of the day at 136 meters, but touched the snow with his buttocks and thus received low posture scores that prevented him from placing on the podium.
“They were basically jumps at a very high level. The second one was great, I also had a bit of luck on my side and took advantage of it. Everything was very cool except for the landing,” summed up Hörl. Daniel Tschofenig fell from third to seventh place in the decision, Michael Hayböck from second place at halftime to 16th, directly behind Manuel Fettner.
Stephan Embacher, on the other hand, was pleased with his tenth place and thus his first top ten placement in the World Cup. “They were very good jumps, I’m very satisfied, I can only be happy. It was a cool start to the weekend,” said the 18-year-old. There will be a team competition on Saturday and another individual competition on Sunday.
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