Lisa Eder fights hard and comes fourth in ski jumping in Engelberg!

Lisa Eder fights hard and comes fourth in ski jumping in Engelberg!

At the most recent World Cup competitions, the Austrian athletes showed both successes and narrow defeats. Lisa Eder, the talented 23-year-old ski jumper from Salzburg, narrowly missed the podium in Engelberg on Saturday. After jumps of 130 and 125 meters, she landed in fourth place, 9.8 points behind third-place Norwegian Thea Minyan Bkjörseth. The victory went to the Slovenian Nika Prevc with jumps of 140 and 134.5 meters, followed by the German Katharina Schmid, who remained 10.9 points behind Prevc oe24.at reported.

Eder on the podium in China

However, there is one bright spot for Eder: in China she secured her second World Cup podium place of the season. On the Olympic normal hill in Zhangjiakou she jumped to third place, while Katharina Schmid took victory again. Eder improved from ninth place in the second round and overtook fourth-placed Japanese Sara Takanashi by a tiny 1.1 points. “To be honest, I no longer expected to be on the podium, but of course I’m happy about that,” said Eder with joy NÖN.at reported.

Eder and Jacqueline Seifriedsberger, who finished eighth in Engelberg and jumped into the top ten, also remained optimistic. “It was a cool day, with the scenery it’s cool to jump,” said Seifriedsberger. Fans can look forward to the weekend's other competitions as Eder continues to search for first place and wants to prove her skills on the large hill.