With Jan Hörl in fifth and Stefan Kraft in ninth, the winners of the past two weeks from Wisla and Klingenthal were the best of the ÖSV. Hörl was 16.6 points short of the German winner Karl Geiger, Kraft was another 9.8 points behind. The remaining podium places went to Ryoyu Kobayashi (JPN) and Timi Zajc (SLO).
Hörl (136.0 / 134.0) and Kraft (133.0 / 131.0) lost a bit of ground to the top people of the day in both rounds, but both held against it after half-time positions five and ten in the final round. Third best Austrian on the Groß-Titlis-Schanze was Manuel Fettner (132.0 / 132.5; -32.8 points) in 14th m, Daniel Tschofenig (130.0 / 133.0; -34.7) succeeded as 17. his best result of the season. Philipp Aschwenwald (133.0 / 127.5; -40.5) was 18th, Daniel Huber (129.0 / 130.0; -43.1) 22nd.
With Geiger (143.0 / 140.0) and Kobayashi (137.5 / 140.5) the two front runners prevailed in the World Cup, Geiger is now 118 points ahead. He passed Zajc from second place in the competition, and Kobayashi was only 0.8 points behind from fourth place. Zajc was 4.8 points short of his World Cup debut win. Ulrich Wohlgenannt had missed the qualification for the second round as 33rd. The second Engelberg competition is scheduled for Sunday (4 p.m., live ORF 1).
Source: Nachrichten
