ÖSV Adler in top form: double victory in Engelberg

One week before the start of the Four Hills Tournament Austria’s ski jumper on Saturday at the first two World Cup competitions in Engelberg with one Double victory strongly demonstrated. Four weeks after his success in Lillehammer, Jan Hörl won ahead of Wisla-Triumphator in changing wind conditions Daniel Tschofenig. The ÖSV duo took on the German five-time season winner, who was only tenth this time, in the World Cup Pius Paschke Soil good.

“It’s unbelievable. I’ve had good results there in the last few years, I also had my first podium here,” said Hörl, recalling his third place at the Engelberg competition in 2019. “I can handle the jump sensationally. Maybe I had a bit of luck on my side, I took advantage of it. We are very strong as a team – one, two is sensational.” Tschofenig also felt comfortable with second place, but would have been confident of victory. “I felt like the jump was pretty cool. I failed the last part of the flight.”

Red-white-red was represented on the victory podium in all nine individual competitions of the season. It was announced in the first round that this series would last. Tschofenig’s 142.5 m set gave him a 4.8 point lead over Hörl, who had reached 142.0 m. The German Karl Geiger (134.5 m) was another 3.2 points behind the Salzburg duo’s first pursuer, while Paschke was only eighth after a 134 m attempt, 12.4 points behind Tschofenig. Defending overall World Cup champion Stefan Kraft had bad luck with the wind (124 m) and finished eleventh.

Kraft still behind Ortner, Hayböck 14. At 138.5 m, Hörl was three meters further than Tschofenig in the decision, which gave him a bonus of 6.5 points over the Carinthian in the final tally. The home fans celebrated Gregor Deschwanden’s third place, the Swiss (-11.8 points) finished ahead of the German duo Andreas Wellinger and Geiger. The third ÖSV entry in the top ten was Maximilian Ortner in ninth place. Kraft only finished 14th, two places behind Michael Hayböck. Their compatriots Stephan Embacher and Markus Müller also scored points as 23rd and 24th respectively.

While Paschke had to digest his worst result of the season at the site of his first of six World Cup victories, Hörl celebrated his fifth individual World Cup victory and the third for his team in the World Cup winter. Last year too, the ÖSV crew gained a lot of points and self-confidence for the tour with a double victory secured by Kraft and Hörl. In the World Cup, with 702 points, Paschke is now 151 points ahead of Hörl and another 15 points ahead of Tschofenig. Kraft (407) fell one place behind the now fourth-placed Deschwanden (419).