Marius Lindvik on top in Klingenthal - Wasek Grand Prix overall winner

Norway's Marius Lindvik won the last individual competition of the FIS Grand Prix 2024 on Saturday.

In Klingenthal (GER), the Olympic champion from Beijing won a thrilling final by a narrow margin (3.2 points) ahead of Timi Zajc from Slovenia and Halvor Egner Granerud from Norway.

Marius Lindvik - three starts, three wins
“It was a great competition for me and the whole team today. My second jump was really good, the first one didn't quite come together,” said Lindvik, who was still in fifth place after the first round. “The mood in our team is great and with today's performance we as a team are absolutely optimistic about the winter season,” explained the day's winner Lindvik, who had already won both competitions at the Grand Prix opener in Wisla POL). Lindvik has thus won all three competitions in which he competed this summer.

With his third victory, Lindvik also achieved third place in the overall Grand Prix ranking with 300 points, one point ahead of the Italian Alex Insam, who had traveled to Klingenthal with a chance of winning the overall Grand Prix, but did not reach the final of the best 30 in today's competition and therefore had to be satisfied with fourth place (299 points) in the end.

The German team put in a strong performance at the only Grand Prix on German soil this summer. Although without a podium finish, the DSV eagles were able to hold their own in a field of top international stars with places 4 (Pius Paschke), 8 (Andreas Wellinger), 14 and 15 (Markus Eisenbichler and Stephan Leyhe) as well as Luca Roth, Karl Geiger and Philipp Raimund in 18th, 20th and 21st.

Pawel Wasek secures overall Grand Prix victory

With the overall victory in the Grand Prix, Pole Pawel Wasek achieved the greatest success of his career to date.

In the absence of Austria's Stefan Kraft (who had decided not to compete in Klingenthal due to the “Sportsman of the Year” election in Austria - in which he came second on Friday evening), Wasek's 25th place in the daily standings was enough for him to win the Grand Prix with 329 points ahead of Kraft (305) and Lindvik (300).

“This success is very important after the season. I competed in all the competitions in the summer while preparing for the winter. This is a great success for me and I am very happy to have won the Grand Prix,” said a delighted Wasek.

For the men, the last competition of the summer, a mixed team competition with the women, is still on the program on Sunday. The start is at 14:45.

Official results

FIS Grand Prix Overall