Beaten by 44 centimeters: Friday in Willingen second behind Tande

Willingen (SID) Ski jumper Richard Freitag narrowly missed his fourth victory of the season at the Olympic dress rehearsal in Willingen, Hesse. In the first of two World Cup competitions on the Mühlenkopfschanze, the 26-year-old Saxon landed in second place with 0,8 points, the equivalent of 44 centimeters behind ski flying world champion Daniel Andre Tande (Norway). The Pole Dawid Kubacki came third. His compatriot Kamil Stoch, who was still leading after the first round, fell back to fourth place. With his eighth podium finish of the current season, Freitag extended his lead in the overall World Cup over Stoch. "The jumps were good, I'm satisfied," said Freitag, who had a serious fall after jumping at the Four Hills Tournament in Innsbruck, on ZDF: "I'm still having a hard time landing after big distances, so I have to work it out slowly. " Tande, who had just recovered from a gastrointestinal infection, jumped to 20.000 and 148,0 m in front of around 146,5 spectators. With 261,3 he was just ahead of Friday, who had 260,5 points (149,5 + 141,5, XNUMX) came. Despite the best distance in the first round with a shorter run-up than Stoch, Freitag was in second place behind the Pole at halftime. The second best German was Andreas Wellinger (Ruhpolding), who won the individual competition in Willingen last year. The vice world champion landed in fifth place with 143,5 points after jumps of 141,5 and 252,6 m, just 2,2 points short of the podium. World Cup third place Markus Eisenbichler (Siegsdorf) once again fell short of expectations with twelfth place (233,0/136,0+139,5 m). Karl Geiger (Oberstdorf) fell back from ninth place after a strong first jump and came 14th (228,7/143,0+130,5). The Willingen local hero Stephan Leyhe came in 16th place (222,8/140,0+131,0). Another individual competition will take place in Willingen on Sunday (10.20 a.m./ZDF and Eurosport), but there will no longer be a qualification for it. On Monday the German ski jumpers will depart from Frankfurt Airport for South Korea.

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Beaten by 44 centimeters: Friday in Willingen second behind Tande

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