Andreas Wellinger has secured the second German victory in the ski jumping world cup in Nischni Tagil within 24 hours. The runner-up in the world championship won a grand double victory in Russia ahead of Richard Freitag, who had won the first jumping event on Saturday.
After Friday, who successfully defended the lead in the overall World Cup, the Austrian Stefan Kraft came third. Markus Eisenbichler dropped back from second place after the first round to fourth place, but achieved his best result of the season.
“The self-confidence was definitely there, the second jump was really awesome”, Wellinger said on ZDF. National coach Werner Schuster spoke of an “almost historical result”. The previous German one-two victory had been won on 15. December 2001 in Engelberg/Switzerland, when Stephan Hocke won his only World Cup victory ahead of Sven Hannawald.
The 22-year-old Wellinger was clearly ahead of Friday (270.9) in his third career success after jumps to 132.0 and 133.5 m with 275.7 points. Kraft (263.5), with a lead of 0.3 points on Eisenbichler (263.2), prevented the first German triple victory in 27 years. On the 15th. December 1990 Andre Kiesewetter won in Sapporo, ahead of Dieter Thoma and Josef Heumann.
Karl Geiger confirmed his good form with ninth place (250.0), Stephan Leyhe (Willingen) became 17th (237.5), Pius Paschke occupied 24th place (217.6).
The former high-flyer Peter Prevc (Slovenia) missed the second round as surprisingly as Michael Hayböck (Austria). Wisla winner Junshiro Kobayashi hadn’t even travelled to Russia like much of the Japanese team.
On Saturday, Friday, he celebrated his sixth victory in his career. The mixed world champion won ahead of the Norwegians Daniel Andre Tande and Johann Andre Forfang and secured the DSV eagle’s first victory in the Olympic season. Wellinger fought his best jump of the second round from 21. to the fourth rank.
David Siegel, on the other hand, failed in qualifying on both days:”I have agreed with David that he will take a World Cup break and join the team again for the Four Hills Tournament,”said national coach Werner Schuster.
Next weekend the first home game of the season is on the agenda, in Titisee-Neustadt there is a team competition and a singles match on the problem.