Strength triumphs in Sapporo: ÖSV star jumps to the World Cup victory!

Strength triumphs in Sapporo: ÖSV star jumps to the World Cup victory!

In the Japanese Sapporo, the Austrian ski jumper caused a sensation again. On Saturday, 29-year-old Salzburger Stefan Kraft secured victory in the second World Cup jumping and once again demonstrated his skills. With an impressive leap to 139.0 meters, he got the half-time lead and defended it with a 5.6 point ahead of the Norwegian Halvor Egner Granerud, as the reported the press . It was already Kraft's 27th individual World Cup victory, and his fourth in Sapporo, where he has already celebrated a number of successes.

But the competition was hard: Jan Hörl from Salzburg was a strong second place in the first competition. The 24-year-old only had to give up the local hero Ryoyu Kobayashi, who had celebrated his first World Cup victory since March 2024 and thus posted his 33rd victory as a whole, as Laola1 reported. In the overall ranking, the Carinthian Daniel Tschofenig was only 0.1 points behind the Slovenian Domen Prevc and finally ended up in fourth place. Furthermore, Manuel Fettner, as eighth and Maximilian Ortner, brought good results for the Austrian team.

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