After two of four competitions in the Four Hills Tournament, Andreas Wellinger is in the lead, now it’s off to Innsbruck. The live ticker for jumping.
- Four Hills Tournament: 3rd jumping in Innsbruck, Wednesday, 1.30 p.m
- Wellinger only 15th in the qualification from Innsbruck: DSV Adler hope to improve
- Anze Lanisek After jumping in Garmisch, he also wins the qualification in Innsbruck
- This live ticker is constantly updated
1st round: The Norwegian Daniel-Andre Tande, winner in Innsbruck in 2017, only manages 117 meters. His opponent Manuel Fettner makes a complete mistake and is eliminated with 108 meters.
| Andreas Wellinger (Ruhpolding/15.) – Andrea Campregher (Italy/36.) |
| Philipp Raimund (Oberstdorf/21.) – Stephan Leyhe (Willingen/30.) |
| Karl Geiger (Oberstdorf/33.) – Maciej Kot (Poland/18.) |
| Pius Paschke (Kiefersfelden/35.) – Piotr Zyla (Poland/16.) |
1st round: Lovro Kos reaches a sensational 135 meters and takes the lead.
1st round: It’s Johann Andre Forfang’s turn and reaches 121.5 meters. Kamil Stoch then reaches the same distance. The Pole narrowly wins the duel.
1st round: Now it’s time to keep our fingers crossed because it’s Andreas Wellinger’s turn. First, his opponent Andrea Campregher jumps, who only reaches 100.5 meters. Wellinger shows his class and reaches 132 meters! Strong!
1st round: Pius Paschke is pretty flat and ends up at 114 meters – that was nothing. Piotr Żyła clearly wins the duel.
1st round: It’s Karl Geiger’s turn. The Oberstdorfer has big problems with the wind and ends up at 120.5 meters. It’s not Geiger’s tour. His opponent Maciej Kot is even weaker and only manages 117.5 meters. The German is further.
1st round: Tate Frantz with 111.5 meters will have no chance against Timi Zajc and that’s how it is. The Slovenian wins the duel easily.
1st round: German duel now. Stephan Leyhe lands at 124.5 and shows a solid jump. Is it enough to win against Philipp Raimund? No, Raimund is through, Leyhe has to hope for the lucky loser classification.
1st round: Halvor Egner Granerud, the defending champion, who did not make it past the first round of the first two competitions, jumps to 120.5 meters. But that’s not enough for Roman Koudelka, who flies at 125.5.
1st round: oldie Simon Ammann has to deal with local hero Michael Hayböck and is clearly defeated.
1st round: Vitaliy Kalinichenko, the second Ukrainian in the field, shows a weak jump and has no chance against Gregor Deschwanden from Switzerland.
1st round: The jumping has started. In the first duel, Clemens Aigner clearly wins against Yevhen Marusiak and moves into the second round.
Update from Wednesday, January 3rd, 1:00 p.m.: The first round of jumping starts in Innsbruck in half an hour. Can Andreas Wellinger maintain his narrow lead or will he be overtaken? You won’t miss anything in our live ticker.
First report: Innsbruck – The first two competitions Four Hills Tournament are over and Andreas Wellinger is very narrowly in the lead. After the victory in Oberstdorf, the 28-year-old took third place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and also wants to shine on the two ski jumps in Austria. But it won’t be easy, because the competition is just behind him and wants to challenge him for overall victory.
Four Hills Tournament live: Jumping Innsbruck – Wellinger with weak qualification
At the third station of the 72nd Four Hills Tournament, Wellinger showed some nerves for the first time because he missed out on a top placement in the qualification in Innsbruck. After his jump of 119.5 meters in changeable wind conditions, the leader of the tour ranking only took 15th place and was twelve places behind his closest competitor for the overall victory, the Japanese Ryoyu Kobayashi.
The two-time tour winner, Wellinger’s first pursuer, only 1.8 points behind, came third with 129.0 meters and seems to be able to handle the hill better than the German.
The victory in the qualification in front of 7,500 spectators at the Bergiselschanze was secured by the Slovenian Anze Lanisek (134.0 meters), who had already won the qualification and later the jumping at the second tour stop in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Four Hills Tournament live: Jumping in Innsbruck – strength needs to catch up
Karl Geiger had a weak day. The 2020/21 tour runner-up fell short of his potential in 33rd place, as did Pius Paschke, who came 35th as the weakest athlete in the German Ski Association. Philipp Raimund was the second best German behind Wellinger in 20th place, Stephan Leyhe came in 30th.
The Austrian top favorite Stefan Kraft is already around 15 meters behind the leading duo. In the qualification, which was influenced by changing winds, he impressed with a jump of 124.5 meters and thus took second place. The 30-year-old needs to catch up in order to be able to take the overall victory. (smr)