Four Hills Tournament: Geiger third in the final – Kobayashi takes overall victory

The Japanese Ryoyu Kobayashi missed the double grand slam at the Four Hills Tournament – and still won the tour with great ease. The day’s win in Bischofshofen went to an Austrian. A German also jumped on the podium. The national coach drew a mixed balance.

Karl Geiger jumped on the podium again in the final last competition of the Four Hills Tournament. The Oberstdorfer finished third on Thursday (January 6th, 2022) with flights at 140.5 and 132 meters. However, Geiger narrowly missed third place in the overall standings.

Huber celebrates first World Cup victory

The best on Thursday in Bischofshofen was the Austrian Daniel Huber (136.5 / 137 meters), who jumped to his first World Cup victory. Second place went to the Norwegian Halvor Egner Granerud (136.5 / 136 meters).

Kobayashi misses second four wins tour

The Japanese Ryoyu Kobayashi missed a historic moment. The 25-year-old won the tour well – he could also have been the first jumper to win all four competitions of a tour for the second time. Kobayashi was only fifth (133.5 / 133.5 meters). The World Cup leader thus flew past his second Grand Slam after 2018/2019.

Eisenbichler is eighth

Markus Eisenbichler, the won the qualification on Thursday afternoon had, only flew at 133 and 134 meters and was eighth of the day.

The final on Thursday evening was overshadowed by Manuel Fettner’s fall, which the Austrian survived unharmed.

Horngacher: “A bit bitter”

“I’m a bit disappointed. Unfortunately, Karl was up there so late. Unfortunately, you could see that it didn’t work out. That’s a bit bitter,” said national coach Stefan Horngacher, who touched something emotionally in the sports show immediately after the jump.

“All in all, you lose too much”

The coach said to Geiger, who missed third place in the overall standings with third place in Bischofshofen: “I think he presented himself really well today, made good jumps. The tour did not go 100% as we wanted it to “, said the Austrian and explained:” One or two things didn’t go well for us. Karl then buried himself in something, that wasn’t ideal, he also didn’t always get the best conditions. In the sum of things you lose then too many points. “

Geiger: “An emotionally difficult tour”

Geiger himself said in the Sportschau: “That was a happy ending. The second jump annoys me a bit, it was very late. It was still a good competition, especially the first jump was really good. That was an emotionally difficult tour . I want to do better next year. “

Overall ranking: Granerud against Geiger

The floodlit tour finale in Salzburger Land was extremely exciting – also in the fight for the tour podium behind the overwhelming overall winner Kobayashi. After his jump to 140.5 meters, Geiger led the competition in the first round and moved up to third place in the overall standings. In the final, however, Granerud regained this third place and triumphed with 1,128.2 points ahead of Geiger (1,123.6 points) and Eisenbichler (1,117.6 points).

Kobayashi celebrates second overall victory

The second overall tour victory after 2019 was Kobayashi (1,162.3) points) after the first round. Second place went to the Norwegian Marius Lindvik (1,138.1 points). After the first round, Lindvik still had to worry, Geiger came up to 2.1 points on Lindvik with his strong jump. But the 23-year-old flew in the final on 139 meters and thus claimed his second, second overall place after 2020 ..

Schmid in the top 20

In jumping on Thursday, three Germans made it into the final of the top 30 alongside Geiger and Eisenbichler: Constantin Schmid ended the tour with a place in the top 20: with widths of 130.5 meters and 130 meters, the 22-year-old finished 17th.

Pius Paschke survived the first round with 130.5 meters over the lucky loser classification. He could not hold 19th place with 126.0 meters in the final, he was 23rd.

Leyhe: “A little disappointed”

Stephan Leyhe with widths of 130 and 125.5 meters came in 25th. “It’s nice to just be there again,” said Leyhe, who had to watch last season because of a torn cruciate ligament, in the sports show. “If you jump into the top 10 at the beginning of the tour, that’s the benchmark that you want to maintain. So I’m a little disappointed. I don’t know exactly why I’m currently ten meters short.”

Freund and Wellinger are out

Two Germans missed the final of the top 30. Severin friend did not get away from the take-off table well and was eliminated with only 121.5 meters against the Norwegian Granerud (136.5 meters).

Had bad luck Andreas Wellingerwho missed the final by 0.2 points. Like his direct competitor Stefan Kraft, he flew at 124 meters, but had to admit defeat by 0.2 points due to slightly poorer evaluation points and slightly better wind.