Kamil Stoch won the qualifications for the competition in Nizhny Tagil in Russia.

Ski Jumping World Cup season 2021/22 started with qualifying in Nizhny Tagil (RUS). Kamil Stoch presented himself best in this round.

Kamil Stoch – three-time Olympic champion, putting the longest jump of the day on 135 mi 128,5 point, he scored over ten points ahead of Slovenia's Anze Lanisek, which landed on 129 m i zdobył 118,1 point.
Austrian Daniel Huber also had a very good start to the season (116,4 point) in third place and Japanese Ryoyu Kobayashi, who is considered by many experts to be one of the leading players of this season, taking fourth place (115,3 point).

Just ahead of Markus Schiffner from Austria, Karl Geiger was the fifth competitor of the German Ski Association today. After a long break due to a knee injury, Geiger's teammate, Stephan Leyhe, finished a very good eighth place. “I improved in every jump today and tomorrow I want to continue and work on it, to make my jump more stable and score some points, so I don't have to start so early”, said Stephan Leyhe after his jump after his return.

Swiss Killian Peier, who also missed the entire previous season, showed up brilliantly in ninth place, his young teammate Dominik Peter also showed himself in very good shape and took 11. place.

Halvor Egner Granerud from Norway was only today 24., Dawid Kubacki and Marius Linvik, 36. i 37., also have some room for improvement on the large hill in Nizhny Tagil.
Graneruda's teammates, Anders Fannemel, who has returned from injury and is participating in the World Cup for the first time since March 2019 r., and Daniel Andre Tande, who had such a serious injury in Planica in March, took their place 26. i 44.

The teams of Turkey and Romania had reasons to celebrate today, both will be represented in the first competitions this season. Fatih Arda Ipcioglu and Andrei Feldorean qualified tonight and will make their World Cup debut tomorrow.

On the other hand, it was a disappointing day for some high-profile athletes. Domain Prevc, Stefan Kraft and Timi Zajc just took over 52., 53. i 54. th place and will not be able to start in Saturday's opening of the World Cup.