Kamil Stoch is the runner-up in Klingenthal.

Halvor Egner Granerud won the first of two Ski Jumping World Cups in Klingenthal. In the sleet at the Vogtland-Arena, the Norwegian overtook Kamil Stoch and Bor Pavlovcic from Slovenia.

The great form and winning streak of the Norwegians Halvor Egner Granerud are amazing. 24-the year-old easily manages to win another world championship. In Klingenthal Granerud took his third victory in a row, ninth this winter.
And just like in the last games, Granerud scored many more points than his main opponents: was driving on Saturday 12,6 punktu nad Kamilem Stochem. I am very happy and satisfied with the way, how I managed to adapt to the stressful situation in the first round, when i had to get off the gate and i was told, that the pre-jumper will jump, but then he didn't jump. That's why I'm glad, that I was able to calm down. The last jump was really good, and such jumps are great fun. It was a really good day for me. My jumps are really good now and I'll just try to do the same tomorrow", said the lucky winner.

Kamil Stoch was also satisfied with his second place: "I'm happy with my jumps today. I was struggling with some small details yesterday and sometimes it can be really hard to find that one little piece, which is missing. Today everything went well and I was actually a bit surprised by the result. It was a successful competition not only for me, but for the whole Polish team. "Stoch's colleagues, Piotr Żyła and Dawid Kubacki, were also in the top four and sixth today.

Slovenian Bor Pavlovcic's third place was his first World Cup podium, but after the 22-year-old's recent performances in Willingen and yesterday's training and prologue, it was no surprise. “This is my first podium and I feel amazing. I was jumping well last weekend and yesterday, so I knew, that I can stand on the podium, if I make good jumps and that's what happened. I hope, that I can make two good jumps like the second one from today in tomorrow's competition, then I can get a good result again”, he said after the competition.

The best German today was Pius Paschke as seventh, Severin Freund and Karl Geiger failed to advance to the second round at 31. i 32. place. Austria's best athlete was Philipp Aschenwald on site 16., and Thomas Lackner and Stefan Kraft took over 18. i 19. place.

Halvor Egner Granerud now leads the overall World Cup with 1306 points, behind him are Markus Eisenbichler (917 points) and Kamil Stoch (805 points).
In its current form and with the advantage of almost 400 Granerud points can slowly start preparing to achieve its goal, which is winning the title of world champion in the general classification, even if it's still on the calendar this season 10 individual world championships. At the moment, Granerud seems invincible.

The second World Cup competition in Klingenthal will start on Sunday at 14:30