Juliane Seyfarth is the third German ski jumper to have won her ticket to the Olympic Winter Games in Pyeonchang. The 27-year-old from Ruhla finished seventh at the World Cup in Zao, Japan, and met the internal standard with her second top-eight finish of the season.
The Norwegian Maren Lundby celebrated her fourth victory in a row. Katharina Althaus (Oberstdorf) and Carina Vogt (Degenfeld), who had already qualified for the Olympics, were not at the start.
Seyfarth flew in heavy snowfall to 84.0 and 88.5 m and recorded its best result since February 2015. In the fight for the fourth Olympic ticket, Ramona Straub (Langenordnach) finished eleventh ahead of Gianina Ernst (Oberstdorf), who finished in 17th place. Place came. National coach Andreas Bauer announces his team on Monday, Olympic champion Vogt and season’s two-time winner Althaus have already been appointed.
Meanwhile, Lundby is heading for South Korea as a clear gold favorite. The Norwegian won well ahead of the Japanese Yuki Ito (215.7) and Sara Takanashi (215.4) with strong flights at 97.0 and 101.0 m as well as 245.9 points. In the overall World Cup Lundby, whose worst result of the winter season is a second place, leads with now 760 points ahead of Althaus (500).
Without Vogt and Althaus, the German team had been without a chance in the team competition on Saturday. Seyfarth, Straub, Ernst and Anna Rupprecht finished fourth with 672.1 points. The victory in the only second team competition in World Cup history went to Japan (761.7), followed by Slovenia (706.8) and Russia (696.1). A total of eight nations competed.