Ski Jumping World Cup: Jan Hoerl eclipses Pius Paschke to snatch Lillehammer victory – results

Jan Hoerl denied Pius Paschke a double triumph on the opening weekend of the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup at Lillehammer on Sunday (24 November).

With the athletes having to contend with driving snow, Paschke almost backed up his win on Saturday in style as he jumped 136.0m in the second round to take the lead.

Saturday’s runner-up Daniel Tschofenig failed to overtake him, but Hoerl’s superb leap of 139.5m moved him to the top of the scoresheets. And it was a case of ‘deja vu’ for World Cup holder Stefan Kraft who finished fourth again after holding the first-round lead.

This was 26-year-old Hoerl’s fourth career World Cup win with his last coming in Lahti last March.

Kristoffer Eriksen Sundal was the best of the Norwegians again in sixth with Maximilan Ortner – who finished third on his secocd World Cup start on Saturday – completing a solid weekend in eighth place.

For the second day running, Tate Frantz of the United States finished in 10th for back-to-back World Cup top-10 finishes at the start of his second year on the circuit.

Japanese star Kobayashi Ryoyu was 17th after his 16th on Saturday having had a build-up interrupted by illness.

The men head to Ruka in Finland for another large hill competition next weekend.

It was a Germany one-two in the women’s competition earlier on Sunday with Katharina Schmid (238.9) claiming her 16th World Cup win ahead of Selina Freitag (236.1) with both improving one place from their opening results. Austria’s Lisa Eder (231.7) rounded out the podium in third.

Young Ingvild Synnoeve Midstkogen, who won two medals at January’s Gangwon 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games, matched her fifth place from Saturday. Reigning women’s crystal globe holder Nika Prevc could only finish 11th after winning 24 hours earlier.

The next women’s round is in Zhangjiakou, People’s Republic of China in mid-December.