Combination Olympic champion Johannes Rydzek also won the World Cup after the extremely successful winter games in Pyeongchang. The 26-year-old won the individual race at Lahti in Finland on Sunday and celebrated his second victory of the season. Vinzenz Geiger, like Rydzek from Oberstdorf, made the third German one-two victory this winter perfect.
Rydzek, who had won the Olympic gold medal in South Korea from the Großschanze and together with Geiger in the team, finished 16th after finishing seventh in the jumping competition. Career victory. Germany’s athlete of the year finished 3.4 seconds ahead of Geiger, who put Norway’s top man Jörgen Graabak behind in the sprint.
Lahti remains a good place for Rydzek. There, the Allgäuer had climbed to record world champion in 2017 with four World Cup titles.
Fabian Rießle (Breitnau), also a member of the Pyeongchang Gold Squadron, finished eleventh on Sunday. Double Olympic champion Eric Frenzel (Oberwiesenthal) had to settle for 15th place after a weak performance on the hill.
In the team sprint the German duo had missed the podium after failures in jumping. Rydzek/Rießle finished fifth, Frenzel/Geiger came sixth.