From red / SID January 01, 2022 – 4:29 pm

Garmisch-Partenkirchen – For the 100th anniversary and 20 years after the last triumph of Sven Hannawald, Markus Eisenbichler missed victory in the New Year’s competition of the 70th Four Hills Tournament by a hair’s breadth. Eisenbichler was 0.2 points short of the hoped-for triumph in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the Bavarian had to admit defeat only Oberstdorf winner Ryoyu Kobayashi as second.

“I didn’t dare to telemark, I didn’t see a line down there,” said Eisenbichler on ZDF: “But I’m satisfied, totally awesome.” In the second round, “Eisei” flew to 143.5 m and was only one half a meter behind the hill record. “Congratulations, that was a great competition from him”, praised national coach Stefan Horngacher.

Kobayashi takes over the yellow jersey

Kobayashi extends his lead in the tour’s overall standings, the Japanese is 13.2 points ahead of the Norwegian Marius Lindvik and the Slovenian Lovro Kos (-17.7), who made it onto the podium in Garmisch-Partenkirchen for the first time in the World Cup. After his third win in the series, Kobayashi also took over the yellow jersey of the World Cup leader from Karl Geiger. Eisenbichler climbed in the tour ranking before the third competition on Tuesday in Innsbruck from seventh to fourth (-21.1), Geiger is almost hopelessly behind in sixth (-32.3).

“To be honest, I’m really pissed off,” said Geigerhoff, disappointed: “The mood: angry.” In both jumps, the 28-year-old had a stronger tailwind compared to the direct competition, making flights impossible.

Stephan Leyhe in the top ten

Stephan Leyhe, in Oberstdorf Neuunter, was able to be satisfied again in tenth place. Constantin Schmid finished 20th after a weak second jump. Meanwhile, Andreas Wellinger started the new year with a little sense of achievement. After the Olympic champion had missed the qualification at the start of the tour, the Upper Bavarian landed in 22nd place.

Ex-world champion Severin Freund collected World Cup points as 28th. Pius Paschke (30th), who lost his duel, and Justin Lisso (43rd) and Felix Hoffmann (46th), who had qualified via the national group, did not make it through.

The poorly form Polish defending champion Kamil Stoch crashed again brutally in 47th place, world champion Stefan Kraft from Austria had already buried his touring dreams on New Year’s Eve after missing the qualification. When.

Next jumping in Innsbruck

Hannawald achieved his last German success on the Olympic hill in Partenkirchen on January 1st, 2002. Now the tour entourage moves on to Austria, where the jumping in Innsbruck and Bischofshofen are on the program on Thursday. On the legendary Bergisel, all of Geiger’s touring dreams were shattered last year when he was only 16th after a messed up first round.