Klemens Joniak was seventh, and Kacper Tomasiak took eighth place in the junior World Cup competition played on Thursday at night ski jumping in Lake Placid on the HS 100 facility.
These two teenagers (Joniak will turn 20 in March, and Tomasiak has been of adult for less than a month) they did well, while Szymon Byrski and Tymoteusz Amilkiewicz were worse. And especially the second of them – he was 28. Byrski, thanks to a very good jump in the final series, moved from place 24. (He took them together with Amilkiewicz) by as many as 10 positions.
Poles without a medal individually, but in the team they will be favorites. Here's what the numbers indicate
Amilkiewicz, dissatisfied at the second jump He hit his helmet with his hand. He will probably have an opportunity to improve on Friday. While he is put up to Poland for a team competition (and it is difficult to suppose that he would not get a chance, after all a year ago he was in a team that won bronze, and in individual competitions he was the best of Poles – he took fifth place). In any case, our team will be one of the very strong candidates for the medal.
Austrians should be unrivaled in Friday's competition. Embacher, bronze medalist Simon Steinberger and Nikolaus Humml, who was tenth and Lukas Haagen, who took 12th place, scored as much as 952.5 points in the individual competition. Until, because the next team accumulated as much as 81.2 points less. This next team is Poland. The notes of Joniak, Tomasiak, Byrski and Amilkiewicz give a total of 871.3 points.
It seems that Poles will fight for the medal on Friday with Germany, Slovenes and Americans. The German four in individual competitions popped up to the company 839 points. On the other hand, Slovenes and Americans introduced three players to the second series, so they gave seven, not eight jumps in the whole competition (four in the first series and three in the second). But if we added their weakest players after the second jump as those that did not advance to TOP 30, then Slovenia would have a total of 830.6 points, while the US would have as many as 861.5 points. So it may turn out that unexpectedly, the young jumpers of the junior World Cup host will be the greatest rivals of Poles in the team.
Either way, the medal for Poland on Friday is very likely. If we get him, we will support a good run. In 2024, at the Junior World Championships in Planica, our team won bronze, and in 2023 in Whistler the Polish team enjoyed silver.