Andreas Wellinger has been the first German victory since December. At turbulent wind flying in Norway, the Olympic champion prevails in front of a Slovenian duo.
After his dream flight, Andreas Wellinger hopped the teammate in his arms, after the worst chaos week of the ski jumping story, the Olympic champion finally felt sheer joy. “It was a great day,” said Wellinger after his impressive success at World Cup flying in Vikersund, where he had neither had been brought out of the concept of the aftermath of the Norwegian suit scandal nor by the windchaos on the monster bakk.
“I got along well with the pressure, just stayed with my jump,” said Wellinger about the first German World Cup victory after exactly three months in a 127-minute marathon competition, “even if the second round due to the wind was very long”.
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The 29-year-old confidently prevailed on Saturday after flights to 228.0 and 229.5 (436.1 points) before the Slovenian Timi Zajc (427.8) and Anze Lanisek (422.7). For the two -time Olympic champion, it was the ninth World Cup victory and the first on a flight ski jump.
Overall victory? Wellinger remains careful
Wellinger was already in front in tough and several breaks due to changing winds after the first round and showed no nerves in the final. In the overall ranking of the RAW-Air tour, the Bayer took the lead and has good chances of winning the winning bonus of 60,000 euros on Sunday.
“I know what it is like to be the leading one until the last jump,” said Wellinger, who narrowly missed the RAW-Air overall victory in 2017: “I therefore go to flight here.”
Pius Paschke, the last German victory in the World Cup, succeeded in Titisee-Neustadt on December 15, after which the DSV eagles and especially Paschke had stuck in the performance hole for many weeks.
On Friday, Karl Geiger, third in Oslo, had the first German podium since Paschke’s victory. Wellinger had previously been on the podium in the World Cup this season – in his demolition victory in Kuusamo in early December.
Paschke in the top 10 – also convinced Eisenbichler
Paschke came nine in ninth and for the first time since the four -hill tour the top 10. Markus Eisenbichler, with 248.0 m German record holder, continued his farewell tour with a strong 15th place. Philipp Raimund came in 20th.
The women’s flight day was turbulent. A first attempt at competition in the morning was canceled after 21 out of 22 jumpers due to massive winds, the competition began in the afternoon and only held in one attempt.
It ended with the known result: Slovenia’s world champion Nika Prevc, who improved the world record to 236.0 m on Friday, celebrated her 20th World Cup victory on her 20th birthday. Selina Friday, since the day before the German record holder at 202.0 m, became third.