Ski jumping fans who were counting on a great competition in the Vikersund competition at RAW Air from the beginning, from the beginning, they experienced a lot of disappointment. First, in Saturday's competitions, which due to terrible weather conditions, stood at a very poor level and were interrupted many times.
He jumped 247 meters in Vikersund! Amazing flight, what a victory!
On Sunday, the weather in Vikersund did not improve. During the prologue after jumping twelve players (it lasted up to 40 minutes) The organizers of the competition decided to cancel it. As a result, everyone was to jump in the first series – 53 competitors (including six Poles: Maciej Kot, Dawid Kubacki, Kamil Stoch, Aleksander Rzeczczoł, Jakub Wolny and Paweł Wąsek).
The organizers also decided that there would be no three series, and two. And 30 jumpers were to be promoted to the second series. Already at the beginning of the competition, which began at 16.35, there were problems. Nobody was blowing too much, and after ten minutes, the organizers decided that the competition would start at 17. However, this did not happen, and the jury decided to postpone the start of the competition at 17.15. This time the players were already jumped.
The beginning did not bring good news for Polish fans. Maciej Kot jumped only 123.5 meters, and Dawid Kubacki – 142.5 meters. Both of the jumps of 20 competitors occupied distant positions (Kubacki – 12, and the cat – 14.) and it was known that they would be missing in a possible second series. Then the white and red jumped better. Kamil Stoch landed on 201 meters and was 19. Alexander jumped two finishing away from him and took 18th place.
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Paweł Wąsek did the best of Poles, who jumped 209.5 meters and took 12th place. The competition was won by Domen Prevc after a phenomenal jump at a distance of 247 meters! The RAW Air cycle was won by German Andreas Wellinger!
The best “10” in Vikersund:
- Domen Prevc (Slovenia) – 247 (214.5)
- Andreas Wellinger (Germany) – 230.5 (199.2)
- Ryoyu Kobayashi (Japan) – 222 (191.2)
- Stefan Kraft (Austria) – 228.5 (188.5)
- Anze Lanisek (Slovenia) – 230.5 (187.9)
- Jan Hoerl (Austria) – 218.5 (182.3)
- Gregor Deschwanden (Switzerland) – 224 (181.4)
- Manuel Fettner (Austria) – 217 (176.6)
- Yukya Sato (Japan) – 220.5 (169.4)
- Karl Geiger (Germany) – 210 (167.6)
… 12. Paweł Wąsek – 209.5 (162.4)
… 18. Aleksander Znamczoł – 203 (153.5)
… 19. Kamil Stoch – 201 (152.8)
… 31. Jakub Wolny – 177 (126.6)
… 44. Dawid Kubacki – 142.5 (69.3)
… 47. Maciej Kot – 123.5 (42.2)