Halvor Egner Granerud wins Four Hills qualification in Oberstdorf ahead of Dawid Kubacki and Timi Zajc
Halvor Egner Granerud won qualification for the first Four Hills event in Oberstdorf.
The Norwegian took top spot with a jump of 133.5m helping him to a score of 155.5.
Dawid Kubacki came second with 146.6 points ahead of Timi Zajc on 141.7 points.
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Fourth-placed Johann Andre Forfang had the longest jump of the day of 134.5m in slightly more favourable wind conditions.
Defending champion Ryoyu Kobayashi safely qualified for the main event in Oberstdorf on December 27 as did Anze Lanisek and Stefan Kraft.
“I am really looking forward to tomorrow,” Kobayashi told Eurosport.
“This is ski jumping so every year is not the same and I do my best.”
The competition for the first Four Hills title gets started at 3.30pm GMT.
The second event is at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, with qualification on December 31 ahead of the main competition on New Year’s Day.
Then it’s on to Innsbruck, with qualifying on January 3 and the main event the next day, before the finale in Bischofshofen on January 5 and January 6.
The American is now just three behind the women’s record of 82, held by compatriot Lindsey Vonn, and is seven adrift of Sweden’s Ingemar Stenmark’s all-time record of 86.
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