The weekend in Titisee-Neustadt for Freund and Fannemel!

The home victory for Severin Freund on Saturday and overwhelming victory of Anders Fannemel on Sunday ended the ski jumping weekend in German Titisee-Neustadt, which hosted the World Cup competitions instead of Liberec.

On Saturday we could watch an amazing battle between the world's top jumpers. The best among them turned out to be the representative of the hosts Severin Freund, who won clearly ahead of Stefan Kraft and Peter Prevc with over 11 points of advantage. The German in his jumps achieved 138,5 and 140 meters. The winner of the 63. Four Hills Tournament Stefan Kraft after the jump on 134 meter after the first round was ranked on the 8th position, but better jump on 139 meters in the final round gave him the possibility to move to the second place. On the lowest step of the podium stood on Saturday Slovene Peter Prevc, who in the first round amazingly flew on 141,5 meters and was placed only 0.3 points behind Freund, but in the final round he jumped 10 meters closer, on 131,5 meters, and that gave him eventually the third position.

Just behind the podium placed the double Olympic champion from Sochi Kamil Stoch, who after his jump on 136 meters was third, but a little bit weaker jump in the final round on 133,5 meters gave him the 4th position, 3.8 points behind the Top 3. In the top of the competition placed also Roman Koudelka (136 and 132m), Noriaki Kasai (137,5 and 132,5m), Gregor Schlierenzauer (136 and 133,5m), Anders Jacobsen (132.5 and 138m), Piotr Zyla (138 and 128m) and Rune Velta (129,5 and 136,5m).

The competition was held in good and equal weather conditions, and we could watch very long jumps of the athletes.

On Sunday the best was Anders Fannemel, who achieved his second in career World Cup victory with over 10 points of advantage ahead of Kamil Stoch and Roman Koudelka. The leader after the first round was Severin Freund, who was disqualified due to too long skis after his jump on 137 meters. The situation fully used Fannemel, who in the first round jumped 135,5 meters but in the final round he left the opponents far behind with a jump on 143,5 meters. From 9th to 2nd position moved Kamil Stoch, who in the first round jumped 130 meters, but in the final round he flew on a distance of 137,5 meters. On the third step of the podium stood today Roman Koudelka, who moved from 11th to 3rd position with jumps of 131,5 and 140,5 meters.

Just behind the podium placed Daiki Ito, who showed two equal and good jumps on 135,5 and 134 meters. 5th place went to the World Cup leader Stefan Kraft, who jumped 133,5 and 132 meters, 6th was Rune Velta with 129,5 and 139 meters, 7th was Peter Prevc (130 and 135,5m), and the Top 10 closed Richard Freitag (134 and 133m), Michael Hayboeck (134,5 and 131m) and Gregor Schlierenzauer (130,5 and 134,5m).

In the World Cup overall standings the leader is still Stefan Kraft with 1208 points, second is Peter Prevc with 1150 points and third Roman Koudelka with 1021 points.

Now the World Cup rivalry moves to Norwegian Vikersund, where on the ski flying hill will be held the last competitions before the World Championships in Falun.

By Anna Sobol (@AnneAZS)

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