Germany wins its first World Cup gold in team competition since 2001

Individual world champion Eisenbichler, the once again strong Karl Geiger, Richard Freitag and Stephan Leyhe won the Bergisel in Innsbruck after eight jumps with 987,5 points, superior to hosts Austria (930,9) and Japan (920,2).

“It was an air show from the first jump. I am very grateful that I was there. But we had to get through it first,” said national coach Werner Schuster on ARD: “This title means a lot to me. This is what we never achieved. And it actually fits in really well with our great team.”

Eisenbichler followed in the footsteps of Martin Schmitt, who was also the last DSV Adler to become world champion individually and with the team in 2001. At the same time, a long dry spell ended: Germany had missed out on the title in each of the last eleven World Cup team competitions, including the normal hill, and had even missed out on the podium seven times.

18 years after the last German World Cup victory in the team Exactly 18 years to the day after the last World Cup triumph in Lahti by Schmitt, Sven Hannawald, Michael Uhrmann and Alexander Herr, the DSV quartet got off to a perfect start. Geiger, who surprisingly came second in the individual World Championships the day before, immediately gave the team a clear lead with a dream jump of 129,0 m. Freitag (121,0), Leyhe (126,0), who came into the team for Andreas Wellinger, and Eisenbichler (128,0) clearly kept the competition at bay at half time. Men's World Championship team jumping in Innsbruck Pos Country Points 1. Germany 987,5 2. Austria 930,9 3. Japan 920,2 4. Poland 909,1 5. Norway 900,2 6. Slovenia 858,7 7. Switzerland 837 8. Czechia 818,4

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Germany wins its first World Cup gold in team competition since 2001

Led by high-flyer Markus Eisenbichler, the German ski jumpers won World Cup gold in the team competition for the first time since 2001.

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