Austria wins first mixed competition this season

Austria confidently wins the first mixed team competition in the 2022/2023 World Cup season. Norway team finished second and third place went to Germany.

Austria lived up to its role as favorite and won the first mixed team competition of the season. Sara Marita Kramer, Michael Hayböck, Eva Pinkelnig and Stefan Kraft jumped 985.9 points and it was 26.7 points more than the second-placed team from Norway. Anna Odine Stroem, Bendik Jakobsen Heggli, Silje Opseth and Halvor Egner Granerud fought tight with Selina Freitag, Constantin Schmid, Katharina Althaus and Karl Geiger from German team for second place, which they finally won with 959.2 to 954. 1 points.

Nika Kriznar, Timi Zajc and Ema Klinec couldn't quite keep up with the distances of the competition and were a little bit behind Anze Lanisek, who made the daily best of 142.5 and 132.5 meters. With 920 points, Slovenia was more than 30 points behind Germany, but almost 80 ahead of Japan, which took fifth place. Yuki Ito, Ryoyu Kobayashi, Sara Takanashi and Naoki Nakamura dueled for him almost to the end of the competition with Italy. Lara Malsiner, Alex Insam, Jessica Malsiner and Giovanni Bresadola were even ahead of Japan after two, four and five groups, but then finished sixth.

Dawid Kubacki with 135.5 meters was able to bring Polish team on the 7th place. The Pole was also able to make up more than 40 points against Antti Aalto and Finnish team ended on the 8th place.

The USA, on the other hand, did not make it to the final, for the first time since December 6, 2013, they had a mixed team in the World Cup. Paige Jones, Casey Larson, Annika Belshaw and Decker Dean did their job as well as they could. The Romanian team consisting of Delia Anamaria Folea, Daniel Andrei Cacina, Daniela Haralambie and Mihnea Alexandru Spulber achived just 195.8 points.