Michael Hayboeck wins the qualifications!

Representative of Austria and current World Cup leader turned out to be the best during the qualification round held before the Four Hills Tournament competition in Innsbruck. Earlier 23-year-old jumper dominated the training rounds.

(Michael Hayboeck, photo: Kathrin Müller, SkiJumpingItaly)

Hayboeck still proves that he deserve to wear the yellow bib of the World Cup leader. Today he jumped 128 meters and won the qualifications. Everything seems that for the final victory he will fight with his teammate and roommate - Stefan Kraft, who today jumped 124,5 meters, but lost only 1 point to Hayboeck. Third place took Richard Freitag with 125,5, meters.

Good jumps gave also Roman Koudelka (125m), Rune Velta (125m), Lauri Asikainen (125m), Noriaki Kasai (121m), Anders Fannemel (122,5m), Johann Andre Forfang (122,5m) and Piotr Żyła (121,5m).

Here are the pairs of Sunday's competition:

Robert Kranjec (SLO) - Ronan Lamy Chappuis (FRA)

Nejc Dezman (SLO) - Kento Sakuyama (JPN)

Thomas Diethart (AUT) - Andreas Kofler (AUT)

Ilmir Hazetdinov (RUS) - Stephan Leyhe (GER)

Michael Neumayer (GER) - Junshiro Kobayashi (JPN)

Dimitry Vassiliev (RUS) - Anders Bardal (NOR)

Rok Justin (SLO) - Jarkko Maeaettae (FIN)

Peter Prevc (SLO) - Jakub Janda (CZE)

Jernej Damjan (SLO) - Sami Niemi (FIN)

Phillip Sjoeen (NOR) - Manuel Fettner (AUT)

Daniel Andre Tande (NOR) - Severin Freund (GER)

Vladimir Zografski (BUL) - Anders Jacobsen (NOR)

Daniel Wenig (GER) - Kamil Stoch (POL)

Matjaz Pungertar (SLO) - Gregor Deschwanden (SUI)

Manuel Poppinger (AUT) - Marinus Kraus (GER)

Daiki Ito (JPN) - Piotr Żyła (POL)

Aleksander Zniszczoł (POL) - Johann Andre Forfang (NOR)

Dawid Kubacki (POL) - Anders Fannemel (NOR)

Jan Matura (CZE) - Noriaki Kasai (JPN)

Clemens Aigner (AUT) - Lauri Asikainen (FIN)

Vladislav Boyarintsev (RUS) - Rune Velta (NOR)

Anssi Koivuranta (FIN) - Roman Koudelka (CZE)

Nicholas Fairall (USA) - Richard Freitag (GER)

Simon Ammann (SUI) - Stefan Kraft (AUT)

Gregor Schlierenzauer (AUT) - Michael Hayboeck (AUT)

The competition will start tomorrow at 14:00 CET.

By Anna Sobol

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