Four Hills Tournament: Granerud also wins in Bischofshofen and thus the tournament – debacle for DSV

In front of 14,000 spectators at the Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze, Halvor Egner Granerud clinched the overall victory of the Four Hills Tournament for the first time, which was rewarded with the golden eagle as a trophy and 100,000 Swiss francs (101,328 euros) as a prize. He is the first Norwegian Tournament winner since Anders Jakobsen 16 years ago (2006/07).

With jumps of 139.5 and 143.5 meters, Granerud (313.4 points) secured the day’s victory again, ahead of Anze Lanisek (Slovenia/140.5 m/139.0 m/305.5) and Dawid Kubacki (Poland/ 135.5m/140.0m/303.7). “It’s amazing. I’ve dreamed of this day for so long. I’ve always been fascinated by the tour,” said Granerud.

In the overall standings, the 26-year-old, who won the jumps in Oberstdorf, Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Bischofshofen, was 33.0 points ahead of Innsbruck winner Dawid Kubacki – the equivalent of 18.33 meters. With 1191.2 points, Granerud also delivered the highest number of points in the history of the tour.

Kubacki, who had become a father for the second time a few hours before the competition, was no longer able to catch up. “Today something else was more important to me. There are days in life when ski jumping only plays a minor role,” said the family man.

Four Hills Tournament: Raimund as a ray of hope

Philipp Raimund (Oberstdorf/136.0 m/135.5 m/281.5) delivered one of the few highlights of the tour from a German point of view in twelfth place in Bischofshofen. The 22-year-old showed four consistent competitions (14th, 15th, 13th, 12th) and finished 13th overall.

Twelfth place on the Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze is also his best World Cup result.

Constantin Schmid (133.0 m/132.5 m/275.1) also impressed. The man from Oberaudorf came in 16th place and 17th overall.

Wellinger slips to eleventh place overall

For Andreas Wellinger from Ruhpolding (131.5 m/130.0 m/267.4), the tour ended mixed with a 20th place. However, the 2018 Olympic champion also had to deal with a gastrointestinal infection.

In the overall ranking, the 27-year-old slipped from eighth to eleventh – the DSV-Adler hadn’t placed so badly since 2010/11. At that time, Michael Uhrmann, as the best German jumper, also only took eleventh place.

“It was a difficult tour for everyone involved. Our top jumpers have far too little self-confidence,” said national coach Stefan Horngacher on “ZDF”. The DSV team had last jumped a worse tour in 1994/95, when Jens Weißflog was only twelfth as the best German.

Geiger disappointed again

“My energy level is pretty low,” Wellinger said after the first round on “ZDF”: “I’m a little better today, but it’s far from good.”

For the first time since 2016/17 there was not a single podium for the DSV jumpers. “That’s one of the most bitter things we’ve experienced here since I’ve been a coach,” Horngacher said before the last competition.

Karl Geiger (Oberstdorf/131.5 m/126.0 m/261.3), fourth at the start of the tour at the local Schattenbergschanze, after his blackout from Innsbruck, also experienced a sobering end of the tour as 23rd (22nd overall ).

“Now the oven is slowly going out, there were turbulent days with a lot of unsightly things, so I have to let some air in for now,” said Geiger.

Eisenbichler, Paschke and Leyhe out early

It was also modest for Markus Eisenbichler: The man from Siegsdorf made slight progress with 130.0 m (129.1) in the first round, but lost his duel with Daniel Tschofenig (Austria/132.5 m/137.6) and was eliminated in 31st place .unhappy looking.

Pius Paschke (45./Kiefersfelden/123.5 m/118.9), who lost the German duel against Schmid, and Stephan Leyhe (46./Willingen/123.0 m/117.5) did not reach the second round either. . Leyhe, third in the tour in 2018/19, celebrated his 31st birthday in Bischofshofen on Thursday. In the overall tour standings, it was only enough for 29th place.

Granerud was already in the lead after the first round and ensured clear conditions, as the first Norwegian since Anders Jacobsen (2006/07) he won the ride over the four hills and made his trauma of winter 2020/21 forgotten.

At that time he was leading as a clear favorite at half-time before a completely botched first jump in Innsbruck threw him out of the race.

DSV-Springer: Time until the World Cup is running out

This time, however, he pulled it off ice cold. With his final jump from hatch nine, he even came within 1.5 meters of Kubacki’s hill record (143.5 m). Granerud is also optimistic about the World Championships in Planica (February 21 to March 6 live on Eurosport).

Meanwhile, the present does not give the DSV jumpers much courage. “As a team, we were rarely as far away as we are at the moment,” said team manager Horst Hüttel.

But there is hardly any time to catch your breath: it continues on 14./15. January in Zakopane. It’s quite possible that one or the other DSV starter in Poland will get a break. “Let’s see,” said Horngacher: “We’ll let that sink in first and then we’ll plan further.”

(with SID)