Four Hills Tournament: tough challenge for Markus Eisenbichler, Karl Geiger with a solvable task

Severin Freund has to deal with Timi Zajc from Slovenia after a good performance.

Andreas Wellinger, who barely prevented the qualification from being eliminated again, jumps against the Austrian Jan Hörl in the first round.

Pius Paschke got a big chunk when he meets Lovro Kos. The Slovenian convinced in the opening competition in Oberstdorf in sixth place.

In the duel of the big names, overall World Cup winner Halvor Egner Granerud from Norway jumps against former tour winner Dawid Kubacki from Poland.

The Norwegian duel between Johann-André Forfang and Marius Lindvik can also be eagerly awaited.

The duels at a glance:

• Gregor Deschwanden (SUI / 26) – Evgeniy Klimov (RUS / 25)
• Halvor Egner Granerud (NOR / 27) – Dawid Kubacki (POL / 24)
• Ilya Mankov (RUS / 28) – Anze Lanisek (SLO / 23)
• Pius Paschke (GER / 29) – Lovro Kos (SLO / 22)
• Pawel Wasek (POL / 30) – Philipp Aschenwald (AUT / 21)
• Ulrich Wohlgenannt (AUT / 31) – Constantin Schmid (GER / 20)
• Kevin Maltsev (EST / 32) – Cene Prevc (SLO / 19)
• Simon Ammann (SUI / 33) – Daniel Huber (AUT / 18)
• Timi Zajc (SLO / 34) – Severin Freund (GER / 17)
• Daiko Ito (JPN (35) – Kamil Stoch (POL / 16)
• Artti Aigro (EST / 36) – Daniil Sadreev (RUS / 15)
• Johann-André Forfang (NOR / 37) – Marius Lindvik (NOR / 14)
• Vladimir Zografski (BUL / 38) – Robert Johansson (NOR / 13)
• Fredrik Villumstad (NOR / 39) – Naoki Nakamura (JPN / 12)
• Justin Lisso (GER / 40) – Daniel-André Tande (NOR / 11)
• Andrzej Stekala (POL / 41) – Kilian Peier (SUI / 10)
• Peter Prevc (SLO / 42) – Stephan Leyhe (GER / 9)
• Jakub Wolny (POL / 43) – Manuel Fettner (AUT / 8)
• Giovanni Bresadola (ITA / 44) – Daniel Tschofenig (AUT / 7)
• Niko Kytosaho (FIN / 45) – Yukiya Sato (JPN / 6)
• Felix Hoffmann (GER / 46) – Piotr Zyla (POL / 5)
• Andreas Wellinger (GER / 47) – Jan Hörl (AUT / 4)
• Roman Trofimov (RUS / 48) – Karl Geiger (GER / 3)
• Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes (CAN / 49) – Ryoyu Kobayashi (JPN / 2)
• Junshiro Kobayashi (JPN / 50) – Markus Eisenbichler (GER / 1)

Eurosport shows all the jumps of the Four Hills Tournament in Oberstdorf, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Innsbruck and Bischofshofen including the qualification LIVE on free TV. Werner Schuster comments with Gerhard Leinauer, Martin Schmitt analyzes with Birgit Nössing in the studio. All jumping LIVE is also available at Eurosport with Joyn +!