Dawid Kubacki wins in Engelberg
Dec 18, 2022·Ski Jumping
Dawid Kubacki won the second FIS Ski Jumping World Cup in Engelberg. The overall World Cup leader prevailed in a high-class competition on Sunday ahead of Austria's Manuel Fettner and Slovenia's Anze Damjan.
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Poland's Dawid Kubacki extended his overall World Cup lead with a victory in the second FIS Ski Jumping World Cup in Engelberg. Kubacki once again presented himself in outstanding shape and won ahead of the strong Austrian Manuel Fettner and long-time rival Anze Lanisek from Slovenia.
Kubacki now leads the overall World Cup with 650 points ahead of Anze Lanisek (576 points) and Stefan Kraft (467 points).
After his 4th victory of the season (2 x Wisla, Neustadt) Kubacki goes as top favorite into the Four-Hills-Tournament starting on 28.12. in Oberstdorf.
Manuel Fettner was happy about second place: "The second place fits exactly to this weekend. I am very happy, there would have been even a little more in it, that makes me incredibly confident for the rest of the winter. The shape is exactly where it should be," Fettner said.
Halvor Egner Granerud, Piotr Zyla, Stefan Kraft and Michael Hayboeck finished 4th - 7th, Giovanni Bresadola was a strong 8th.
Giovanni Bresadola better and better
8th place today and thus best career result for the Italian Giovanni Bresadola. The 21-year-old is slowly but surely marching towards the top of the world.
Karl Geiger crashes after 140 meters in run 1
Karl Geiger crashed after a strong 140 meter jump in round 1 and lost important points, but remained uninjured. Geiger still achieved a strong 10th place in the end despite the fall.
"I suffered a bit on landing, I rolled off routinely, nothing happened at all in the fall. That was a very good day for me, that builds me up, it was better today than yesterday despite a fall" said Geiger.
Erik Belshaw strong
The young US American Erik Belshaw was happy about a strong 24th place and with it his best career result. Belshaw prevailed in the high-class competition against numerous top people.
Out after round 1.
For example, Johann Andre Forfang, Timi Zajc, Kamil Stoch and the entire Team Japan did not reach the second round.
A blow for Team Japan
With Ren Nikaido, Keiichi Sato, Yukiya Sato, Junshiro Kobayashi, Naoki Nakamura and superstar Ryoyu Kobayashi the whole Japanese team already left after round 1, no athlete from Nippon in the final.
For the ski jumpers the Christmas break is now on the calendar before it comes to the first big highlight of the winter with the qualification for the opening competition of the Four Hills Tournament in Oberstdorf on December 28.
