OSV jumpers cheer: Tschofenig and Hörl ensure double victory in Lake Placid!

OSV jumpers cheer: Tschofenig and Hörl ensure double victory in Lake Placid!

In a gripping competition in Lake Placid, Daniel Tschofenig and Jan Hörl ensured a sensational double victory of the Austrian Ski Association (ÖSV)-for the first time since the four-hill tour! Tschofenig triumphed with a narrow lead of only six points and thus celebrated his eighth win of the season. The podium three went to the Slovenian Anze Lanisek, who was 12.8 points behind the Austrian. What was striking was the weak performance of Stefan Kraft, who only finished 14.

impressive performance before the WM

Tschofenig was also strong in the past competitions and drives to Sapporo as a superior World Cup leader, 203 points before Hörl and with more than 500 points ahead of strength. "Of course I am pleased that I was able to win here too. It was a cool day," the young athlete let the press know. For Hörl it was the twelfth podium this season - he ended up eight times. The Salzburger expressed itself about his place: "The joy is great, another podium. I leased second place this year, but I can be very satisfied", like Vienna.at further reported.

With a total of 39 podium places, the ÖSV jumpers have already set a new record this season and exceeded the previous best value of 38 placements that the Japanese had reached in the 1998/99 season. The Austrian ski jumping team lifts this result to a new level and creates great expectations of the upcoming competitions in Japanese Sapporo.