The German ski jumping duo is surprisingly significantly behind in the Super team competition.
Ski jumping Olympic champion Andreas Wellinger and Philipp Raimund missed the podium in the second and last super team competition. In Lahti, Finnish, the duo was fourth in the victory of the Slovenes on Sunday, and after the last strong performance it was a small damper for the DSV eagles in the late season phase.
After three rounds on the Salpauselkä-Sschanze, Wellinger (123.0+126.5+126.0) and Raimund (121.0+120.0+118.5) with 762.1 points were surprisingly significantly behind the top nations-the equivalent of 22 meters was missing. The victory went to the Slovenes Anze Lanisek and Lovro Kos (813.4) off Austria (809.3) and Japan (802.5).
“We left too many feathers, forgiven a few meters in every jump. The river and the energy swept out of the individually,” said Wellinger, who recently won the RAW-Air tour, in the ARD. Raimund said: “I’m pretty flat, stood a little next to the trail. That was Saublöd.”
Wellinger and Pius Paschke won the only super team competition of the season in Titisee-Neustadt in December. At the event, which will replace the usual team competition with four jumpers from 2026 at Olympia, two athletes per team compete against each other.
Raimund and Wellinger occupied five and six on Saturday when the Slovenia Anze Anze Lanisek Lanisek took place in the individual competition. The significantly improved five-time winner of the season Paschke came in twelve, Karl Geiger finished 13th. The former team world champion Stephan Leyhe came in 25th place in the last jump.
The World Cup final will take place next weekend with two single and team flying in Slovenian Planica. The Austrian Daniel Tschofenig can hardly be won over by the overall World Cup.