Winter sports ticker | Steinmair with mega comeback to the podium

The weekend in the new year is packed with numerous winter sports events. Whether it's ski jumping, bobsleigh, or Nordic combined – keep track of everything here.

10 January 2026

From: sn

SKI JUMPING: Jan Hörl and Stephan Embacher won the first Super Team event of the ski jumping season in Zakopane on Saturday. The Austrian duo, who finished second and third overall in the Four Hills Tournament, celebrated a clear start-to-finish victory in the Olympic event, finishing 47,6 points ahead of Slovenia, who competed without their Four Hills Tournament winner Domen Prevc, and 64,1 points ahead of Poland. It was only the second Super Team victory for Austria since the event's inception.

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ALPINE SKIING: Laura Steinmair secured her third podium finish of the season. In the European Cup giant slalom in Sestriere, the 25-year-old from Olang, after finishing 17th in the first run, launched a comeback and made a significant leap forward: With a gap of 0,44 seconds, the South Tyrolean posted the fastest time in the second run and was only beaten by Swiss winner Sue Piller and Sweden's Hilma Lövblom (+0,10 seconds). In the end, she missed the victory by just eleven hundredths of a second.

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SKI JUMPING: At least in the top two spots, nothing seems to be changing in the women's World Cup. Nika Prev celebrated her third consecutive victory ahead of Austria's Lisa Eder. The Slovenian dominated the competition in Ljubno with 278,3 points, finishing 24,2 points ahead of her rival. Germany's Selina Freitag (244,7) completed the podium. The best Italian in the field was Annika Sieff (25th/199,5), while South Tyrol's Jessica Malsiner missed the second round (31st/91,9).

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BOB: At the World Cup in St. Moritz-Celerina, which also served as the European Championships, Johannes Lochner and Georg Fleischhauer secured a German one-two finish, ahead of Francesco Friedrich and Alexander Schüller (+0,78 seconds). The British duo of Brad Hall and Taylor Lawrence finished third (+1,19). Patrick Baumgartner from South Tyrol and his teammate Robert Mircea finished twelfth (+1,92).

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NORDIC COMBINATION: Aaron Kostner from St. Ulrich finished 26th at the World Cup in Otepää, Estonia, making him the best Italian in the field. The victory went to Norway's Einar Luraas Oftebro, followed by Johannes Rydzek and Andreas Skoglund. In the women's competition, Norway's Ida Marie Hagen took first place ahead of Yuna Kasai and Minja Korhonen. Daniela Dejori from Val Gardena finished in 22nd place.