Piotr Żyła is the runner-up in Willingen

With an impressive performance, Halvor Egner Granerud won the second competition of the Ski Jumping World Cup in Willingen on Sunday. After just one round, Granerud won a clear victory over Piotr Żyła and Markus Eisenbichler from Germany.

The winner of Sunday's competition and the overall title of Willingen / 6 selected after one round. Due to difficult wind conditions, this one round had to be interrupted several times, and it took about two hours to complete, longer than a normal two-round competition.

Yesterday's winner and overall World Cup leader Halvor Egner Granerud from Norway had no influence on today's conditions. He managed to gain the advantage with his great jump 19,3 points in only one round. “Conditions weren't too bad for me today, I could have stayed longer in the warm-up room and waited for my jump there, others had to wait a long time in the cold and it was much harder for them. I'm in great shape at the moment. It appears, I managed to get back into the pre-Christmas mood – just jump and have fun. The World Cup is definitely not over, but it's good to increase your advantage over others “, said the lucky winner.

Piotr Żyła took second place in the World Cup competition in Willingen. Piotrek was full of energy after this success. "I think I'll go for a run.", I don't know what I'm going to do with myself," he said with his characteristic sense of humor.

With today's third place, Markus Eisenbichler could move up to third in the general classification of Willingen / 6. “I was lucky with the wind conditions and now I'm very happy, that I could stand on the podium today. Under these conditions, it can be done both ways”, Eisenbichler said.

The surprise of the day was the fourth Klemens Muranka. Polak, who has been the hill record holder in Willingen since Friday, confirmed today, that at Muehlenkopfhill in Willingen he can jump really well. Pius Paschke took a strong eighth place.
After yesterday 12. place, Simon Ammann was ninth today, a very good performance by the four-time Olympic champion after a long drought.

Stefan Kraft and Daniel Huber finished sixth and seventh today after that, how they struggled with the conditions in Saturday's competition. Stefan Kraft said after the party: “It was extremely hard today and I wasn't expecting it, that the jury will conduct the competition, though it was far from fair. But it still has to be said, that the best were in the top three. again today. In such conditions you have to attack and today I managed to do it. I am definitely very happy with my jump. “

The World Cup will continue next weekend with two competitions in Klingenthal.