Wellinger seventh in the Lahti qualification - Stoch in front

Lahti (SID) Olympic ski jumping champion Andreas Wellinger had a mixed start to the first World Cup after the Pyeongchang Winter Games. In the qualification in Lahti, Finland, Wellinger came seventh, making him only the fourth best of the strong German jumpers. The 22-year-old from Ruhpolding, who won gold on the normal hill in Pyeongchang, flew from the 2017 World Championships hill to 123,0 m and was therefore significantly shorter than qualification winner Kamil Stoch from Poland (134,5), the large hill Olympic champion. Six days after the end of the Winter Games, which were so successful for the DSV Adler, Markus Eisenbichler (Siegsdorf), who was not on the silver team from South Korea, came third behind Stoch and his compatriot Dawid Kubacki in the individual competition on Sunday (15.30:16.30 p.m. CET). ) a. Before that, there will be a team competition on Saturday (XNUMX p.m. CET/both ARD and Eurosport). Stephan Leyhe (Willingen) came fourth, Karl Geiger (Oberstdorf) came fifth. Richard Freitag (Aue) weakened a little in 15th place, but like Constantin Schmid (Oberaudorf) in 21st and Pius Paschke (Kiefersfelden) in 28th, both of whom were not in the Olympic squad, made it into the top 50 competition . Japan's veteran Noriaki Kasai was eliminated in 56th place. Freitag and Wellinger still have the chance to become the fourth German to win the overall World Cup after Jens Weißflog (1983/84), Martin Schmitt (1998/99 and 1999/2000) and Severin Freund (2014/15). With eleven competitions still to go, second-placed Freitag (820 points) and Wellinger in third place (736) are within striking distance of the leader from Poland, Kamil Stoch (863). For a win you get 100 points.

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Wellinger seventh in the Lahti qualification - Stoch in front

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