Norway's Halvor Egner Granerud won Thursday's competition, producing jumps of 142.5 and 139 metres and earning 13.4 points more than Żyła and 17.5 more than Kubacki.
Poland’s Kamil Stoch, a three-time overall Four Hills champion, finished ninth.
The Four Hills Tournament, which is part of the ski-jumping World Cup circuit, features a series of four competitions taking place in Germany and Austria every year.
The next stop after Oberstdorf is Germany’s Garmisch-Partenkirchen, where the world's top ski jumpers are set to compete on New Year's Day.
After that the series will move to Austria for events in Innsbruck on January 4 and Bischofshofen on January 6.
Poland's Stoch, a three-time Olympic champion, won the 2020/2021 season's Four Hills Tournament and also triumphed at the 2017/2018 and 2016/2017 tournaments.
Meanwhile, Poland's Kubacki, who leads this season’s World Cup standings, claimed the overall Four Hills Tournament title in the 2019/2020 season.
Dawid Kubacki. Photo: PAP/EPA/CHRISTIAN BRUNA
The 2022/2023 ski-jumping World Cup circuit, run by the International Ski Federation (FIS), features a total of 39 competitions, including 32 individual events, in various countries.
Austrian Thomas Thurnbichler this year took over as the head coach of the Polish men’s ski-jumping team to replace Czech Michal Doležal.
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Source: TVP, PAP