Bayer was crowned in Innsbruck, Austria at the Nordic world SKI Championships to the new title holder. Karl Geiger won the silver medal. Such a double success, there were still never.
Sensation on the Bergisel: Markus Eisenbichler, Karl Geiger will have to Jump for a German double success at the world Cup on the large hill in Innsbruck. Eisenbichler jumped 131,5 and 135,5 meters, and thus celebrated the first victory in his career. Geiger improved with 130,5 meters in the second round, after he was with 131 meters in the first attempt, the Fourth. Bronze at the world Championships after the first round, leading the Swiss Killian Peier.
National coach Werner Schuster showed in the ARD more than satisfied with the double success of his proteges: “Both have already shown in qualifying with positions one and two, that you come here.” Eisenbichler was happy after his success: “I’m overjoyed, I feel so much adrenaline that I’m Shaking.”
German ski jumpers continue run of success
The German ski jumpers have, therefore, continued its successful series of the last major events. Also in the Championships in Falun 2015 and Lahti 2017, there had been in any single a minimum of a medal for the DSV-eagle. A year ago, Andreas Wellinger flew at the Games of Pyeongchang to the Olympic Gold and silver before the DSV-Team, the young Ruhpoldinger won a silver medal.
In the great final sprint under the German coach Schuster, the privy at the end of March after eleven years as the head coach of the German ski Federation, is able to Start in the world Cup in Tirol, a experience of success. Schuster was counted according to exchange performance in the world Cup to adhere, especially on medals in the Team and for the individual the great power competitions density in the world’s top stresses.
That it worked with the first medal, of all things, at the legendary Bergisel in Innsbruck, was a cobbler even more. Always had burst on this hill in the past few years, dreams of overall victory at the four hills tournament. Richard Freitag and Severin Freund crashed and only this year Eisenbichler lost the crucial meters for the third of four Jump.
hf/fab (sid, dpa)