Four Poles advanced to the first individual competition – only Maciej Kot was missing, who took 43rd place in the qualifications. The second place was Piotr ¯y³a, who whetted the appetite of Polish fans after a flight of 241 meters. In turn, Aleksander Zniszczo³ showed great performance in the trial series, with 222 meters giving him sixth place. Before the competition, Poles had reasons to be optimistic.
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On Friday afternoon, Dawid Kubacki was the first Pole to appear on the starting beam. However, it did not reach the construction point – it landed at 197 meters and in the end it was not enough to advance to the second competition series. Fortunately, Piotr Żyła performed better, whose jump of 211.5 meters allowed him to take 21st place. Immediately after Żyła’s attempt, Anze Lanisek, who was returning from injury, suffered a serious fall as he glided high above the landing zone and was unable to land.
Kamil Stoch was in 14th place after the first attempt at 213 meters, and Aleksander Zniszczoł did even better. The leader of the Polish team soared to 221.5 meters, which gave him seventh place jointly with Stefan Kraft. The leader was Daniel Huber (232 m), followed by Peter Prevc (237.5 m) and Timi Zajc (227.5 m). Noriaki Kasai entered the second series immediately after the disqualification of Manuel Fettner, giving him 30th place.
In the second part, the 51-year-old Japanese started with a 205-meter flight and finished the individual season in 29th place. The first of the White and Reds, Piotr Żyła, achieved the same distance, which meant that after the second attempt he dropped to 24th place. Most of the next competitors flew much further, including Kamil Stoch, who achieved 218.5 meters. After a nice, 252nd flight beyond the 200-meter mark in his career, he moved up to 10th place. Thus, he achieved the best result this season. Aleksander Zniszczoł experienced very poor wind conditions and achieved only 207.5 meters, which dropped him to 14th place.
The competition was won by Peter Prevc, for whom it was the penultimate competition in his entire career. The Slovenian landed on the 231st meter and overtook Daniel Hubert and Johan Andre Forfang on the podium.
Results of Friday’s individual World Cup competition in Planica:
1. Peter Prevc (Slovenia) – 452.1 points 2. Daniel Hubert (Austria) – 448.5 points 3. Johann Andre Forfang (Norway) – 441.3 points 4. Timi Zajc (Slovenia) – 440.2 points 5 . Marius Lindvik (Norway) – 423.9 points 6. Daniel Tschofenig (Austria) – 419 points 7. Stefan Kraft (Austria) – 417.5 points 8. Erik Belshaw (USA) – 414.7 points 9. Ryoyu Kobayashi ( Japan) – 414.2 points 10. Pius Paschke (Germany) – 407.1 points 11. Kamil Stoch (Poland) – 403.2 points … 14. Aleksander Zniszczoł (Poland) – 401.8 points 24. Piotr Żyła (Poland) ) – 378.7 points 32. Dawid Kubacki (Poland) – 174 points
The team competition will start on Saturday, March 23 at 9:30. An hour and a half later, the jumpers will take part in a trial series before the competition.
2024-03-22 15:56:00
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