Home snow victory for impressive Paschke and Wellinger in first men’s Super Team event of the season

Dec 13, 2024·Ski Jumping

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Pius Paschke and Andreas Wellinger (GER) claimed victory in the first Men’s Super Team event of the 2024/25 FIS Ski Jumping World Cup season. The Germans led from start to finish to take the win in front of the home crowd in Titisee-Neustadt.

Individual World Cup leader Paschke and teammate Wellinger won the Super Team event with a total of 873.3 points after three rounds to finish 23.3 points clear of second-place finishers Daniel Tschofenig and Jan Hoerl (AUT). Kristoffer Eriksen Sundal and Halvor Egner Granerud (NOR) landed in third (829.2 points).

The Super Team event is a relatively new event where two athletes compete together. Both perform one jump in each round. After the first round, the top twelve teams qualify for the second round, while the top eight then make it to the third and final round.

Wellinger kicked things off for the Germans and took an immediate lead after a strong first jump in the first round (143.6 points). Paschke, currently in the form of his life, followed suit and added 149.9 points for a combined total of 293.5 points and an early 10.5-point lead over Austria after round one.

A great start to the weekend

The two Germans kept on delivering and further extended their lead to 16.6 points following two outstanding jumps (140.9 for Wellinger and 147.0 for Paschke) in the second round.

Paschke and Wellinger finished it off by scoring 148.4 and 143.5 points in the third and final round to make it Germany’s day.

“(It’s) a great start to the weekend”, Wellinger said afterward. “We had perfect weather today and we did really good jumps. It was a start-to-finish victory, so we’re super happy about it. I’m looking forward to the next days. Let’s go for it."

Paschke was impressed with the way he and his teammate jumped to the win in Titisee-Neustadt. "You can't expect something like that", Paschke said. "You just try to do good jumps from the start. We did that. Andreas was much better than the last weeks from the first jump onwards. Then we had the confidence that we could do it."

It’s Germany’s second team victory of the 2024/25 season after a win in the Mixed Team event at the season opener in Lillehammer (NOR) last month.

Paschke already has three individual World Cup victories this season and was also part of the two German winning teams.

Individual competition up next

The FIS Ski Jumping World Cup in Titisee-Neustadt (GER) continues on Saturday 14 December with qualifications and competition in the individual event.

World Cup leader Paschke, who performed the best jump on Friday (scoring 149.9 points after traveling an impressive 143.5m) is the top favorite. "I like the hill a lot", Paschke said. "The main goal is to compete every day, every competition on a high level", he added, looking ahead to the individual event.

The women compete in Zhangjiakou (CHN) this weekend, with individual World Cup events on both Saturday (14 December) and Sunday (15 December).

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