WC Zakopane/POL - Team Competition

Today`s team competition was a really exciting and thrilling one, because with Norway, Austria, Germany, Slovenia and Poland were five teams in the fight for the podium. At the end it was a hard-fought victory for the German Team with Eisenbichler, Leyhe, Wellinger and Freitag ahead Poland and Slovenia.

The Norwegian Team with Johann André Forfang, Tom Hilde, Anders Fannemel and Daniel-André Tande and the Austrian Team have fighten on a high level, too. For a long run both teams were within reach to the podium. Unfortunately they had to admited defeat and the Norwegians jumped on place 5th.

Once again Daniel-André (1st round: 130 meters, final round: 134 meters) was the best of the team. With him is definitely to be count on in the tomorrow`s fight on the top positions. The other three shown good jumps, too. Tom has presented two stable jumps on 129 meters and 129,5 meters. Johann André (1st round: 130 meters, final round: 125 meters) and Anders (1st round: 120,5 meters, final round: 130 meters) have shown only one good jump and have lost a few meters with their second jump. Anyway, the result is very good and you can looking forward to tomorrow`s individual competition, which begins at 16:00 (CET).

full result here: data.fis-ski.com/pdf/2017/JP/3786/2017JP3786RL.pdf

nations cup standing: data.fis-ski.com/pdf/2017/JP/3786/2017JP3786NCS.pdf

photo: berkutschi.com