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Ski jumping: Poland 5th in Zakopane team competition

18.01.2025 19:53
The home team of Aleksander Zniszczoł, Kamil Stoch, Dawid Kubacki and Paweł Wąsek took fifth place in the Ski Jumping World Cup team competition in Zakopane, Poland. The Austrians finished first, ahead of the Slovenians and Norwegians.
Polands top active ski jumper of 2025 - Paweł Wąsek
Poland's top active ski jumper of 2025 - Paweł WąsekPAP/Grzegorz Momot

Aleksander Zniszczoł jumped 119 m and 125 m, Kamil Stoch - 125.5 m and 131 m, Dawid Kubacki - 131.5 m and 128 m, and Paweł Wąsek - 133 m and 138 m. The Poles scored a total of 1,037 points.

The Austrians led in the competition from the start. Jan Hoerl, Maximilian Ortner, Stefan Kraft and Daniel Tschofenig triumphed with a score of 1,170.4 points. The Austrian jumpers won the team competition in Zakopane for the fourth time - previously having triumphed in 2021, 2023 and 2024. Through Saturday's win, they tied the number of victories on Zakopane's Wielka Krokiew ski jumping hill with the Germans.

Lovro Kos, Timi Zajc, Domen Prevc and Anze Lanisek of Slovenia scored 1129.6 points. They advanced from fourth to second place in the second series. Norway's Kristoffer Eriksen Sundal, Benjamin Oestvold, Halvor Egner Granerud and Johann Andre Forfang scored 1122.9 points, which earned them the third place.

Despite being third after the first series, Germans finished just off the podium. The Swiss took sixth place, the Americans - seventh, and the Japanese - eighth. Kazakhstan and Finland were eliminated from the competition after the first series.

The highest individual score on Saturday was obtained by Austrian Hoerl - 308 points, with Slovenian Lanisek second (301.2 points), Austrian Tschofenig third (299.5 points) and Norwegian Forfang fourth, with 293.2 points. The best of the Poles, Wąsek, had the fifth result - 291.2 points.

On Sunday at 4pm local time, individual competition on Wielka Krokiew will kick off, with five Poles participating - the four who started in the team competition, as well as Jakub Wolny.

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Source: IAR, PAP