Ski jumping: Marius Lindvik wins on home soil
Late on Saturday, the men’s small hill competition at the World Ski Jumping Championships in Trondheim (Norway) was a thing of beauty. During the entire competition, the competition jury, contrary to its usual practice, did not tighten the run-up, letting the athletes express themselves.
Marius Lindvik, in the first round at 108 metres, took the record on the Granåsen springboard. This performance put him at the top of the rankings after just one jump. A position that the reigning Olympic springboard champion had not yet achieved this season.
In the final round, with the pressure of an entire country on his shoulders, he managed to confirm his position to land at 104.5 metres and become world champion in front of his home crowd. He thus becomes the fifth Norwegian to be crowned on the small hill after Toralf Engan (1962), Bjoern Wirkola (1966), Anders Bardal (2013) and Rune Velta (1965).
Germany’s Andreas Wellinger (106.5 and 104.5 metres) took silver on 2.3 points, while Austria’s Jan Hoerl (107 and 102 metres) was bronze on 9.2 points.
Karl Geiger (105.5 and 102 metres), Johann Andre Forfang (107 and 100.5 metres), Stefan Kraft (106 and 101 metres), Ryoyu Kobayashi (104 and 103.5 metres), Anze Lanisek (100 and 104 metres), Vladimir Zografski (99.5 and 105 metres) and Pawel Wasek (99 and 102 metres) rounded out the top 10.
Valentin Foubert couldn’t cope with the pressure
Courchevel’s Valentin Foubert (99 and 90 metres), sixth in the qualifying round on Saturday evening and sixth again in the trial jump at the start of the afternoon, was unable to keep up the pressure and finished twenty-seventh.
He still finished ahead of Pius Paschke (96.5 and 89 metres), thirtieth, and not far behind Daniel Tschofenig (97 and 96.5 metres), twenty-first, Piotr Zyla (104.5 and 96.5 metres), twentieth, Dawid Kubacki (100 and 95.5 metres), nineteenth, and Gregor Deschwanden (102.5 and 99.5 metres), fourteenth.
Enzo Milesi super thirty-fifth, from the scrapyard after a jump
Haut-Savoyard Enzo Milesi (95 metres), in his first competition at the world championships, took a fine thirty-fifth place, less than 5 points outside the top 30.
Among the other victims of the first run were the Swiss Yanick Wasser (97 metres), thirty-sixth, Killian Peier (91.5 metres), forty-first, and Simon Ammann (92.5 metres), forty-second.
Kristoffer Eriksen Sundal (93.5 metres), thirty-third, and Timi Zajc (93 metres), thirty-seventh, were also out after just one jump.
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