Led by high-Flyer, Markus Eisenbichler, the German ski jumpers have won for the first time since 2001, world championship Gold in the team competition. The infamous Bergisel, the team triumphed after Eisenbichler in a single.
Individual champion iron Bichler, once again Karl Geiger, Richard Freitag and Stephan Leyhe won on the large hill in Innsbruck after eight jumps, with a total of 987,5 points ahead of hosts Austria (930,9) and Japan (920,2). “The way was a flight show at the first jump. I am very grateful that I was there. But we had to bring it through,” said national coach Werner Schuster in the ARD: “This title means the world to me so much. This is what we have never achieved. And actually, that totally fits well to our great Team.”
Martin Schmitt finds a worthy successor
Eisenbichler came in the footsteps of Martin Schmitt, who was become in 2001 as a date-of-last-DSV-eagle-world champion in the single, as well as with the Team. At the same time a long thirst-ended range: In the past eleven world Cup team jump, including normal hill Germany had missed out on the title, seven times, and even the podium.
Because the joy is great…
On the day exactly 18 years after the last FIFA world Cup Triumph in Lahti by Schmitt, Sven Hannawald, Michael watch man and Mr. Alexander, the DSV Quartet got off to a perfect Start. Geiger, a day earlier, a surprising world Cup-Second in the individual to become brought to the Team with a dream to jump on 129,0 meters immediately clear in the lead. Friday (121,0), Andreas Wellinger on the Team ever Leyhe (126,0) and iron Bichler (128,0) kept the competition at half-time clearly at a distance.
“The guys do their thing”
“At the Moment, it runs really well, there were two outstanding jumps of mark and Karl. The guys now just do their thing,” said national coach Werner Schuster for the break. In the second round, his team held on to the default: The outstanding violinist (130,0), Friday (120,0) and Leyhe (128,5) expanded the lead, iron Bichler (128,5) brought Gold with the last of the Bergisel jump of the world Cup home.
nob/qu (sid, dpa)