Good weekend for two of the storied jumpers in the history of the sport: Austria’s Stefan Kraft and Daniela Iraschko-Stolz.
Kraft, who dominated the 2016-17 season and won two World Championships golds, won his 13th World Cup gold and first in two seasons in Zakopane (POL), where he had also won in 2016.
Iraschko-Stolz, one of the first great women’s jumpers, won her 15th World Cup gold in the first of two competitions in Zao (JPN), giving her wins on two weekends in a row. Norway’s Maren Lundby, the reigning World Cup champion, won Sunday’s event, for her 15th career World Cup gold and her third win in Zao. Summaries:
FIS Ski Jumping World Cup
Zakopane (POL) ~ 20 January 2019
(Full results here)
Men’s 140 m hill: 1. Stefan Kraft (AUT), 278.3; 2. Robert Johansson (NOR), 275.7; 3. Yukiya Sato (JPN), 273.3; 4. Johann Andre Forfang (NOR), 271.8; 5. Halvor Egner Granerud (NOR), 270.5.
Men’s Team 140 m hill: 1. Germany (Geiger, Eisenbichler, Siegel, Leyhe), 1,157.5; 2. Austria, 1,157.4; 3. Poland, 1,117.2; 4. Slovenia, 1,103.8; 5. Japan, 1,088.0.
FIS Ski Jumping World Cup
Zao (JPN) ~ 18-20 January 2019
(Full results here)
Women’s 102 m hill I: 1. Daniela Iraschko-Stolz (AUT), 205.2; 2. Sara Takanashi (JPN), 203.5; 3. Katharina Althaus (GER), 203.2; 4. Maren Lundby (NOR), 200.3; 5. Nika Kriznar (SLO), 199.2.
Women’s 102 m hill II: 1. Lundby (NOR), 198.7; 2. Anna Odine Stroem (NOR), 197.4; 3. Carina Vogt (GER), 195.2; 4. Eva Pinkelnig (AUT), 191.3; 5. Iraschko-Stolz (AUT), 190.4.
Women’s 102 m hill: 1. Germany (Seyfarth, Straub, Vogt, Althaus), 838.6; 2. Austria, 811.2; 3. Japan, 768.3; 4. Norway, 756.5; 5. Slovenia, 743.4.
