Japan’s springboard jumper Ryoy Kobayashi won a four-spring jump tour in Bishopshofen on Thursday, but the Austrian Daniel Huber celebrated the victory in the final stage.
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Kobayashi celebrated his second victory in the overall standings on Thursday for the 70th time.
However, he failed to be the first to win two Grand Slams.
Kobayashi had won the previous three stages of the four springboard races this season, including the previous stage on the big springboard named after Paul Auserleitner in another Austrian city in Innsbruck.
However, the first jump only 133.5 meters left him in fifth place in the stage, and the second jump was no further, gaining 277.8 points and not improving his position.
That was more than enough to secure his second victory in the overall standings of the four springboard races after 2018/2019 with 1,162.3 points. year season wins in all four stages.
Hubber won on Thursday, winning the World Cup for the first time with 286.8 points (136.5 and 137 meters).
The second was Norwegian Halvor Egner Granerud with 282.4 points (136.5 m / 136 m) and the third with 281.9 points was Karl Geiger from Germany (140.5 m / 132 m).
Kobayashi started his jumps on Thursday with a 17.9-point lead over Norway’s Marius Linnvik, and the last hope for the Norwegian to win the title ended with a first jump of 126 meters, finishing in tenth place after the second.
He finished second with 1138.1 points, 9.9 points ahead of Granerud.
Kobayashi became only the third three years ago to win all four single-season four springboard races, joining German Sven Hannavald (2002) and Kamil Stoh from Poland (2018).
At the start of the season, the Japanese were forced to skip the race for some time due to a Covid-19 infection, but have recovered, winning five of the last seven World Cup stages and leading the way with 841 points.
Geiger followed with 785 points and Granerud with 613 points.
Last season, Stohs won the tour and won the Golden Eagle trophy for the third time.
