Stefan Kraft! Who else?
Dec 03, 2023·Ski Jumping
Austria's Stefan Kraft remains unbeaten after the fourth Ski Jumping World Cup of the winter. With playful ease, the Austrian first won the qualification on Sunday in Lillehammer and then also won the competition on the large hill.
Andreas Wellinger and Jan Hoerl finished second and third behind Kraft.
Location: no matter, conditions: no matter, hill size: no matter.
Stefan Kraft is currently winning everything there is to win in the World Cup.
Last weekend, the man from Salzburg won both competitions in Ruka (FIN), this weekend both qualifications and both normal and large hill competitions. Kraft has collected 400 out of a possible 400 points in the World Cup so far, while Andreas Wellimnger (GER), who is in impressive form and is in second place in the overall World Cup rankings, is already 130 points behind after four competitions.
"You can't dream of something like this, it just has to happen. It leaves me a bit speechless myself. Everything is just working at the moment.
Things can happen very quickly in ski jumping, a small mistake can mean that you're not at the top or even miss the second round. So you can never sit back, you always have to be fully concentrated at the start," explained Kraft.
For Kraft, it was his 34th World Cup victory and 102nd podium place in the World Cup in an individual competition.
Behind Kraft, Wellinger and Hörl, Karl Geiger was delighted with 4th place, Ryoyu Kobayashi (JPN) and Norway's Marius Lindvik finished 5th and 6th behind Geiger.
With Pius Paschke (7th), Manuel Fettner (8th), Michael Hayboeck (9th), Stephan Leyhe (11th), Philipp Raimund (12th) and Daniel Tschofenig (13th), 10 athletes from Austria and Germany finished in the top 13. In between, Peter Prevc was the best Slovenian in 10th place.
For the other nations, there is currently not much to gain in the Ski Jumping World Cup.
The team from Poland is still in crisis. Dawid Kubacki finished 22nd and Piotr Zyla 25th.
The World Cup continues for the ski jumpers next weekend in Klingenthal (GER) with two competitions.
