Piotr Żyła is the new World Champion on the normal hill.

 

The victory of the Pole in Oberstdorf is a surprise, but not brilliant. In training, especially in the trial round, The vein showed, that you have to deal with it. Karl Geiger and Anze Lanisek took second and third place behind Piotr Żyła.

No one shows such great joy as Piotr Żyła. Man, who has won two world championships so far, he intensely celebrated his title together with his teammates. “I felt great all day and I realized, I have a lot of energy today. From the very beginning I had a great feeling and I knew, that I can achieve something special today”, said the 34-year-old favorite of the Polish audience.

Behind Piotr Żyła, local hero Karl Geiger once again showed his great skills during an important event. After an average winter, where the Ski Flying World Championships in December have been the highlight so far, took second place today. With this medal, Geiger proved his extraordinary versatility. “I did not expect such a result, I had to make very good jumps. At the moment, I am incredibly proud and overwhelmed with this second place”, said Geiger after the success on his home hill.

The third place was taken by Slovenian Anze Lanisek, who was the only one of the top favorites to stand on the podium today.
The best challenger Halvor Egner Granerud has already been defeated, when he finished in the first round 16 place. Eventually Granerud advanced to fourth place with a spectacular jump in the final round, but the leader of the overall World Cup classification lost to the podium 1,8 point. The defending champion Dawid Kubacki was fifth, Michael Hayboeck was the best Austrian as seventh, Stefan Kraft was tenth.

Markus Eisenbichler was there 17. and very happy with his teammate's second place, Karl Geiger: “I am extremely happy, that Karl won a medal. I did not expect that, but Karl did very well. Unfortunately, that was not the case for me. It didn't go well in the first round, I didn't have the best conditions, and then you're already behind, it makes it difficult. In the second round, I attacked, but it did not work ", summed up his competition Eisenbichler.
Simon Ammann was 20., second Swiss jumper in the final, Gregory Deschwanden, was 24. on their day 30. birthday.