Antti Aalto led the World Cup hill race in Willingen, Germany after the opening round. In the second round, Johann Andre Forfang broke the hill record and won.
Finland Antti Aalto led the Ski Jumping Men’s World Cup competition in Willingen, Germany after the first round. In the first round, Aalto stretched a whopping 147.5 meters in an ideal wind gap.
In the second round, Aalto fell to 128 meters and fell to 14th place.
Aalto was able to jump in the opening round in great wind conditions.
– Absolutely brilliant jump, absolutely brilliant jump. It had its ups and downs, of course, but you have to jump into it. I was by no means at my best in the test round, but now I got a great success and technically very good, Viaplay expert Jaakko Tallus glowed.
– Now there is oxygen on the downhill, something you can lean against.
Due to wind compensation, Aalto was deducted no less than 25.4 points in the first round.
The ranking was Aalto’s best of the season. He was 16th in Lillehammer in December. Aalto has been in the top ten five times in his career. His best finish in the World Cup is sixth.
– In the first round, everything was successful. I went to the second round with the feeling that the situation is favorable. I didn’t get as good a jump on it as I did in the first round. Maybe left to dig. The day was special, but you have to take the good things out of this, Aalto told STT by phone.
The head coach Lauri Hakola reminded that Aalto’s jumps have varied greatly.
– He succeeded in qualifying and then even better in the first round of the competition. It was amazing to watch when the Finnish boy pulled the montu to the bottom.
Aalto has twice finished sixth and fifth in the top ten in the World Cup, but it’s been four years since the last time.
– Those competitions came to mind a bit. Mixed feelings, Aalto recounted his moods between rounds.
For Hakola, the situation was unique when he was the last coach to wave the flag to the last jumper of the second round.
– Why not. I would love to do that again sometime. Let’s go with the green light. Monttu was full of people, he waved at the loud German audience.
The competition was won by Norway Johann Andre Forfang, who broke the hill record 155.5 meters with his second jump. of Japan Ruoyu Kobayashi rose 13 places to second with his 148 meters in the second round. The third was from Norway Erik Kristoffer Sundal.
In the 145 meter jump of the second round, 11 places have risen Niko Kytösaho was finally the best Finn, ninth. Kasperi Valto missed the first round.
The large swings told about how the jumping was done in the varying wind conditions in Willingen. For example, the leader of the World Cup Stefan Kraft missed the first round.
– Niko’s career best and Antti’s best World Cup finish of the season, head coach Hakola reminded.
It remains the Finnish man’s latest ski jumping World Cup victory Anssi Koivuranta first place in Innsbruck on January 4, 2014. Since then, Finnish men have not been seen in the top three.
Before Koivuranta, the last time Finnish men were seen among the three was in 2010, when Ville Larinto won in Kuopio and was second in Lillehammer. The same year Matti Hautamäki finished second twice and Janne Ahonen once. Hautamäki, Ahonen and Harri Olli also took third places in 2010.
Willingen, Germany
Men, HS147 / Final results
1. Johann Andre Forfang NOR 252.7
2. Ryoyu Kobayashi JPN 221.7
3. Kristoffer Sundal NOR 219.9
4. Michael Hayböck AUT 215.7
5. Domen Prevc SLO 215.6
6. Daniel Tschofenig AUT 213.9
7. Manuel Fettner AUT 212.7
8. Aleksander Zniszczol POL 210.7
9. Niko Kytösaho FIN 209.0
10. Lovro Kos SLO 206.4
14. Antti Aalto FIN 199.8
34. Kasperi Valto FIN 81.0
Updated at 21:41. Added comments from Finns.