FIS World Cup in Titisee-Neustadt

At the World Cup weekend of the ski jumpers in Titisee-Neustadt, a total of four competitions are on the program. We have collected some interesting facts about the most promising atheletes.

Dawid Kubacki
Dawid Kubacki won the first two individual competitions of the 2022/23 World Cup on home soil in Wisla (November 5-6). Kubacki then finished fourth and sixth in Ruka.
The last ski jumper to win the first individual event in the men's World Cup and win the overall World Cup in the same season was Thomas Morgenstern in the 2007-08 season, and the Austrian won the first six World Cups that season.
Kubacki won both World Cup individual events in Titisee-Neustadt in the 2019/20 season. He finished sixth and seventh in 2020/21 and did not compete in Neustadt last winter.

Stefan Kraft
Stefan Kraft is the only ski jumper to have reached at least one World Cup podium in each of the last 11 seasons (from 2012/13 to 2022).
Kraft (26) is just one World Cup victory short of joining Ryoyu Kobayashi (27) in eighth place
in the most individual World Cup victories by a male ski jumper.
Kraft (84) is fourth on the list of most World Cup podium finishes by a male ski jumper. The top three finishers are Janne Ahonen (108), Adam Malysz (92) and Gregor Schlierenzauer (88).

Anze Lanisek
Anze Lanisek could become the fifth male Slovenian ski jumper in Neustadt to have more than two individual World Cup victories, after Peter Prevc (23), Primoz Peterka (15), Robert Kranjec (7) and Domen Prevc (5).

Halvor Egner Granerud
Halvor Egner Granerud took his 15th individual World Cup victory in Ruka, which is a record for a Norwegian ski jumper. His total of 25 individual World Cup podiums is the fifth most among Norwegian men, one behind fourth-placed Daniel André Tande (26).
Granerud had his best individual World Cup finishes at a German venue in 2020/21 with a first and a second place in Titisee-Neustadt.

Karl Geiger and Andreas Wellinger
The last seven German individual World Cup victories were all to the account of Karl Geiger, including both events in Titisee-Neustadt last season. Geiger also achieved several individual victories at the same World Cup in Val di Fiemme (2019/20) and Planica (2020/21).
After Geiger's sixth place in Ruka, this is the best German individual placing in the World Cup so far this season. 
Andreas Wellinger (seventh in Ruka) has not reached an individual World Cup podium since 2018, the
longest drought of his career.

Naoki Nakamura
Naoki Nakamura became the 23rd Japanese ski jumper to finish on the podium in the individual World Cup in Ruka (third). On German soil, Nakamura's best result so far is 15th (Klingenthal 2021/22) in an individual World Cup.

Silje Opseth
Silje Opseth has won one of the two World Cup individual events this season in both Wisla and Lillehammer. In the 2021/22 season, Sara Marita Kramer recorded at least one World Cup individual success in each of the first four venues.
Opseth had only one individual World Cup win prior to this season, in March 2022 in Oslo. The only other Norwegian ski jumper with multiple individual World Cup wins is Maren Lundby (30).
Opseth is 23 years old. Lundby had already won 13 World Cup individual jumps before her 24th birthday.

Eva Pinkelnig
Eva Pinkelnig has finished on the podium in each of the first four individual competitions this season, including a victory in Wisla. Her third-place finish in Wisla was her first World Cup individual podium since February 2020 (second in Ljubno ob Savinji).

In Wisla, Pinkelnig (34 years old) became the second-oldest female ski jumper to win a World Cup individual competition after Daniela Iraschko-Stolz (three victories at 35). In Wisla, Pinkelnig was more than twice as old as the youngest competitor, Tamara Mesikova (16 years old) from Slovakia.
Pinkelnig's previous three World Cup individual victories had all come in Japan.

Katharina Althaus
Katharina Althaus has been on the podium twice so far in 2022/23 (first in Lillehammer, second in Wisla). Althaus can become the first German ski jumper to win a World Cup individual competition in Germany in Neustadt.

Althaus has 39 World Cup individual podiums, just three fewer than all other German female ski jumpers combined (42).