At the end of a successful career, the teammates took the former ski jumping world champion Stephan Leyhe on the shoulders and joyfully sprayed him with sparkling wine. At 33, once World Cup gold and two Olympic medals, the Sauerlander says goodbye to the World Cup-and thus rings the generation change in the German team at the end of a turbulent winter.
“I am just proud that I was allowed to have such a time. I look back on the past few years with a crying and a friendly eye,” said a visibly contained Leyhe after emotional hours in Lahti, Finnish. His father Volker and his youth coach Jörg Pietschmann also went to Finland, where Leyhe was waved with a flag of his SC Willingen.
Eisenbichler also works
But the 2019 team world champion will not say goodbye to the only German – in a week the six -time world champion Markus Eisenbichler will disappear from the big stage.
One year before the Olympics in Italy, the outdated team of national coach Stefan Horngacher is facing a phase of sporty upheaval. And the greatest hope for a positive future is Philipp Raimund. At the age of 24, “Hille” is becoming more and more established in the top of the world, which he also demonstrated this weekend in Finland. The fifth single rank of Saturday was followed by fourth place in the super team on the side of Andreas Wellinger.
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“I am very satisfied. My flights were very okay. I stay tuned and it is important for myself to see that I can keep up,” said Raimund after the singles. The super team then went a little less positive. “We just left too much feathers. It was a bit missing in every jump,” said Wellinger.
The World Cup winter 2024/25 will remember the German team in particular: What started with five individual victories by Pius Paschke ended in sporty flops on the four-hill tour and the Nordic Ski World Championships overshadowed by a suit scandal in Trondheim, at which only Wellinger’s medal-free title fights.
Tschofenig vs. Hörl in Planica
In terms of sport, the tone continues to state. The single decided on Saturday the Slovenian Anze Lanisek before Stefan Kraft and Poland’s Pawel Waewel. In the future format Super-Team with two jumpers and three rounds, the Slovenes with Lanisek and Lovro Kos prevailed in front of the two Austrians Kraft and Manuel Fettner. Third came after six jumps Japan (Ryoyu Kobayashi, Ren Nikaido).
The two ski jumper, which will be particularly watched in the fight for the overall World Cup the next weekend in the Slovenian valley of the ski jumps, had a break on Sunday: Daniel Tschofenig and Jan Hörl did not perform the necessary performances to jump in Austria’s super team.
Four “Tschofenige-Siege-Vour Torse winner goes with a cushion of 114 points ahead of Hörl into the last two singles of the winter. After that, for the World Cup scandal for deliberately manipulated suits of the Norwegians, a long summer of the refurbishment begins.