Stefan Kraft wins two competitions in 3 hours

Austria's Stefan Kraft was the man of the day on Saturday at the Ski Flying in Planica (SLO) 2023. Early in the morning Kraft won the individual competition which was postponed from Friday (too strong wind) to Saturday ahead of Anze Lanisek (SLO) and Piotr Zyla from Poland. Kraft then won the directly following team competition with the team from Austria ahead of Slovenia and Norway.

Stefan Kraft celebrated his 30th World Cup victory in the competition, which consisted of only one competition round. With his success Kraft, who is currently ranked second in the Ski Flying World Cup, also caught up 50 points on leader Halvor Egner Granerud (NOR). 
Thus Kraft's gap to Granerud before the final competition on Sunday (only the best 30 at the start) is only 10 points. Kraft can therefore still win the small crystal globe for the best ski flyer of the season on Sunday by his own efforts. "It will certainly be very, very exciting tomorrow," Kraft explained in an ORF interview. Kraft is also safely second in the overall World Cup after his success today and Austria can now also theoretically no longer lose the Nations Cup.

Second victory in three hours with the ÖSV team
Daniel Tschofenig, Michael Hayboeck, Jan Hoerl and final jumper Stefan Kraft then won the team competition just a little later with 1,688.7 points just 6.1 points ahead of Slovenia and 33.5 ahead of Norway. 
"Two victories so soon after each other I have also never experienced before" Kraft was pleased.
"We were really happy, we almost couldn't believe that we beat the Slovenians at home in ski flying." 
For Austria it was the first victory in a team fly in eleven years. "My very first ski flying victory in the team, cool," Kraft said.

The other placings in the team competition:
2. Slovenia 1,682.6 ( Lovro Kos 220/215 - Domen Prevc 240.5/239.5 - Timi Zajc 232.5/236.5 - Anze Lanisek 239.5/217)
3. Norway 1.655,2 (Johann Andre Forfang 222,5/217,5 - Bendik Jakobsen Heggli 232/234 - Robert Johansson 237,5/227 - Halvor Egner Granerud 234,5/239,5)
4th Poland 1,549.7
5th Germany 1,451.0
6th Switzerland 1,409.2
7th Japan
8th USA

On Sunday, the last competition of the season for the ski jumpers will follow: the ski flying final with the best 30 athletes. The start is at 10:00 a.m.

Result ski jumping/ski flying on Saturday individual competition
Result Ski jumping/Skifleigen on Saturday Team competition