50 competitors stood at the start of Monday's training before the last competition of the 73rd Four Hills Tournament at the ski jumping hill. Paul Ausserleitner (HS142) in Bischofshofen. There were four Polish representatives in this group: Piotr ¯y³a, David KubackiAleksander Zniszczoł and Paweł Wąsek (Jakub Wolny did not pass the qualifications).
Aleksander Zniszczoł's podium and the second longest jump in training!
Already at the beginning of training, Polish fans received very good news. Aleksander Zniszczoł jumped as much as 138.5 meters and after the trials he led as many as 39 competitors (he was ahead of the German Philipp Raimund by only 0.2 points). Only Austrian Jan Hoerl, who landed half a meter shorter than Zniszczoł, but his total score was 7.5 points higher than the Pole. Apart from Hoerl, Zniszczoł was only overtaken by Austrian Stefan Kraft, who was in excellent shape and leading in the general classification of the Four Hills Tournament, with the longest jump in training – 140.5 meters. If it weren't for him, the Pole would have made such a jump!
Paweł Wąsek jumped 136 meters, but received two minus points for a favorable wind and ultimately took 14th place.
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The remaining White and Reds performed poorly. Dawid Kubacki jumped 124.5 meters (72.6) and was 30th, and Piotr Żyła half a meter further (70.6) and was classified 37th.
Sunday's competition will start at 16.30. It looks exciting fight for victory in TCS, which should be fought by three Austrians: Stefan Kraft, Jan Hoerl and Daniel Tschofenig. We invite you to watch the live coverage on Sport.pl and in the Sport.pl LIVE mobile application.
Best “10” training:
- Stefan Kraft (Austria) – 140.5 meters – score 101.3,
- Jan Hoerl (Austria) – 138 – 98.8,
- Aleksander Zniszczoł – 138.5 – 91.3,
- Philipp Raimund (Germany) – 136.5 – 91.1
- Johann Andre Forfang (Norway) – 138 – 89.7,
- Manuel Fettner (Austria) – 136.5 – 89.5,
- Kilian Peier (Switzerland) – 132.5 – 88.9,
- Pius Paschke (Germany) – 132.5 – 88.9
- Halvor Egner Granerud (Norway) – 138 – 88.5
- Benjamin Oestvold (Norway) – 134 – 88.2.