Timi Zajc wins in Oberstdorf
Mar 20, 2022·Ski Jumping
Slovenia's Timi Zajc won the second Ski Flying World Cup competition in Oberstdorf (GER) on Sunday. After an exciting final round, Zajc claimed the win ahead of Poland's Piotr Zyla and Austria's Stefan Kraft, who won Saturday's competition.
Today's success in Oberstdorf was the second World Cup win for Timi Zajc. He took his first three years ago, also on the Heini-Klopfer-hill in Oberstdorf. "I had to wait a really long time for this win, it was a tough fight today. Now I'm really looking forward to the final competitions in Planica (SLO) next weekend", said Zajc. Zajc had already won the Ski Flying World Championship title with the Slovenian team a week ago in Vikersund.
Piotr Zyla was second and achieved a great result for the Polish team. After two third places (Kamil Stoch in Klingenthal and Piotr Zyla in Lahti), this is the best World Cup result for them this winter. Dawid Kubacki completed the successful day for Poland in seventh.
The third place today went to Stefan Kraft of Austria. Ziga Jelar confirmed his second place in Saturday's competition with the fourth place this afternoon, Johann Andre Forfang was the best Norwegian in fifth.
In the fight for the overall World Cup title, Ryoyu Kobayashi (6th) could extend his lead over Karl Geiger (9th). Before the final two competitions, Kobayashi is now 66 points ahead of Geiger, who narrowly qualified for today's competition in 37th in the qualification. "Today was a tough day, I was really nervous after the qualification. It didn't go well for me today, I was hoping for more", Karl Geiger said.
Markus Eisenbichler tied for ninth with Geiger, Severin Freund was 13th.
Finland's Eetu Nousiainen could once again show a very good performance. After his 15th place on Saturday, he came in seventh today, after the first round he was even second. This is a career-best result for the 24-year-old and a reward for the hard work of the Finnish team this winter.
After his crash yesterday, Daniel Huber finished on the strong 14th place today.
Slovenia's Domen Prevc set a new hill record in the qualification. The youngest of the three Prevc brothers landed at 242.5 m and improved the old record of 238.5 m held by Daniel Andre Tande. Prevc benefited from his low flight curve and slight headwind, he had no problems standing this jump and thinks that an even longer flight would be possible. "There's more possible down there", he said smiling after his record jump.
The final World Cup competitions of the 2021/22 season will be held in Planica (SLO) next weekend. Three competitions (two individual competitions on Friday and Sunday and a team event on Saturday) will take place on the HS 240 Letalnica hill. The fight for the overall title will be decided on the weekend in Planica.
