Anze Lanisek wins first competition in Titisee-Neustadt
Dec 09, 2022·Ski Jumping
Anze Lanisek won Friday’s competition in Titisee-Neustadt. Dawid Kubacki finished second and Karl Geiger third.
With jumps of 133.5 and 141 meters, Anze Lanisek secured victory in the first of two individual competitions this weekend in Titisee-Neustadt. At the first World Cup of the season in Germany, the Slovenian scored a total of 272.8 points and beat top favorite Dawid Kubacki from Poland, who had a distance of 130.5 and the best distance of 144 meters (271.5 points). Third place went to Karl Geiger from Oberstdorf with 135 and 141.5 meters (269.2 points).
After the first round it looked like Halvor Egner Granerud would celebrate his first win of the season. After strong performances in training and the qualification carried out in advance, the Norwegian lost in the final, did not get past 135 meters and then fell back to fifth place.
In addition to Karl Geiger, Constantin Schmid from the German team also impressed with light snowfall and changeable wind conditions, taking seventh place with 132.5 and 134 meters. Stephan Leyhe (15th), Markus Eisenbichler (21st) and Pius Paschke (22nd) also collected further World Cup points from the team of national coach Stefan Horngacher.
Only Andreas Wellinger, who fell during training the day before, couldn't get past 43rd place with 121.5 meters due to ankle problems and had to watch in the second round.
Team Poland with Kubacki as the leader, also Piotr Zyla made the good competition today (6th). Austrians showed good performance aswell with Michael Hayböck (4th), Stefan Kraft (8th) and Manuel Fettner ( 9.).
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