Kamil Stoch wins in Innsbruck
Kamil Stoch won the third competition on Sunday 69 Four Hills Tournament. At Bergisel in Innsbruck, the three-time Olympic champion clearly dominated the competition and overtook Slovenian Anze Laniska and his teammate Dawid Kubacki.
The Norwegian Halvor Egner Granierud and the Bergisel Hill in Innsbruck will probably never become friends. The best favorite for today's victory and general classification has already been defeated after the first half of the competition. Grayerud was just 29. after the first series, he finally got promoted 14 seats, But he lost his four -hills in the tournament. After the competition, the grangeud was of course very disappointed and needed a few minutes, to find descriptive words, What happened. "I felt like in Innsbruck today, I'm sorry to say, but it felt like in Innsbruck. I've never had a good job here, it's always the same. A good jump and all of a sudden it just falls off, without a clear explanation why. the same procedure as the deadline. I probably made some mistakes, but it wasn't the only jump 115 m “
Karl Geiger, ahead of today's second place overall, He shared a similar fate today. The winner of the competition in Oberstdorf was only 30. after the first series, and finally took it 16. place. "It was quite sobering, very bad. It's really hard, what happened here. I don't know, what to say and i am very frustrated. I know, I can jump well, that's why such error is so annoying, in the second round you then jump ten meters further, that's a lot here, and you ask yourself, what actually happened. Now we have a day off tomorrow and I really don't want to talk about Bischofshofen right now”, Geiger said, which is now fourth, zaraz za Granerudem, in the overall Four Hills ranking.
Today didn't go well for Granerud and Geiger, But it went great for three Poles. In difficult conditions at Bergisel, Kamil Stoch used his experience and skills and clearly won before Anze Lanisko from Slovenia and our compatriot Dawid Kubacki. The fourth place was taken by the third Pole Piotr Żyła – total triumph of Poland.
“It was a fantastic day, I jumped really well today, and my colleagues were also excellent, so i'm happy with them too. I don't think so, that the 4-Hills-Tournament is still over and I want to focus on myself and my jumping, and not on the result"- Stoch said, who currently leads the overall classification of the 4-Hills-Tournament with a total 809,9 point, followed by Dawid Kubacki and Halvor Egner Granerud.
“It was a great competition for me and the whole Polish team. I don't know, where I lost points compared to Kamil. Actually, you can't go that far ahead, I don't know, how did he do it”, Kubacki said about 12 point advantage of Stoch over the second in the table Anze Lanisk.
Lanisek was also extremely pleased: "After Garmisch I was a bit disappointed. I knew, that I can stand on the podium, so here i tried to achieve it. As for me today, the conditions were pretty good, in Innsbruck can always happen. I am very happy with my performance here. Bischofshofen is a hill, which I really like and hope, that I will be able to perform at a high level again”.
Yukiya Sato took fifth to seventh place, Markus Eisenbichler and the second best Japanese, Ryoyu Kobayashi. Stefan Kraft and Michael Hayboeck from Austria took eighth and ninth place.
four, maybe even five riders have at least a theoretical chance of winning the overall title 69. Four Hills Tournament. Ale Halvor Egner Granerud, Karl Geiger and Markus Eisenbichler will be extremely difficult to catch up with the two leading Poles. The tournament final in Bischofshofen will certainly continue to be exciting.
The competition starts on Wednesday at 16:45 CET.