In the first series, Polish fans were quite disappointed. The two best scoring players in the World Cup so far – Kapcer Tomasiak and Kamil Stoch did not qualify for the second series! 18-year-old Tomasiak stopped a great series of 8 consecutive World Cup competitions with points. This time, after a jump of 125.5 meters (score 107.8), he was 32nd. Kamil Stoch was just ahead of him (128 meters – 108.1), and he was only 0.3 points short of “30”! – I had trouble getting the right feeling here. Unfortunately, a worse weekend happened – Tomasiak later explained to Eurosport. But what was Austrian Jan Hoerl, who finished 35th, supposed to say?
Huge disappointment in Klingenthal. Poles’ places say it all
This time the best Polish player was Piotr Żyła. After the first series he was 16th, but he was ten points behind the best “10th”. In the second series, the Pole jumped in the best conditions. However, he did not take advantage of the good wind and jumped only 129 meters. As a result, he was classified only in 20th position.
Paweł Wąsek also did well, having the best competition so far this season. The Pole took 21st place.
Dawid Kubacki did poorly again. In the first series he jumped 129.5 meters, but in the second series he jumped eight meters shorter and was only 28th.
However, for the fourth time in a row, the World Cup competition was won by Domen Prevc. The Slovenian outright knocked out his rivals. His advantage over other competitors was gigantic. He overtook the Japanese Ren Nikaido by 13 points, and the third-placed Ryoyu Kobayashi by 14.1 points.
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Prevc strengthened his lead in the overall World Cup standings. He increased his advantage over the runner-up, and Kobayashi was promoted to this position. The Slovenian has 670 points and the Japanese – 531.
The next World Cup competitions will be held in Engelberg, Switzerland.
The best “10” of the competition in Klingenthal:
- Domain Prevc (141 i 140.5 – 275.1)
- Ren Nikaido (141 i 135 – 262.1)
- Ryoyu Kobayashi (142 i 133,5 – 261)
- Valentin Foubert (140 i 137 – 257.4)
- Kristoffer Eriksen Sundal (138.5 in 133 – 252.5)
- Tomofumi Naito (139,5 i 136 – 252
- Halvor Egner Granerud (134 in 138 – 248.8)
- Stephan Embacher (131,5 i 136 – 242.2)
- Manuel Fettner (138,5 i 128 – 242.1)
- Philipp Raimund (137 i 127.5 – 238)
- Stefan Kraft (137 i 127 – 237.1)
- 20. Piotr Żyła (130.5 and 129 – 221.1)
- 21. Paweł Wąsek (132 and 127 – 220.7)
- 28. Dawid Kubacki (129.5 and 121.5 – 207.2)
- 31. Kamil Stoch (128 – 108.1)
- 32. Kacper Tomasiak (125.5 – 107.8)
- 37. Maciej Kot (126.5 – 101.4)
