Triple victory
Bergisel Ski Jumping: Qualification from 13.30 LIVE
Austria's ski jumpers remain a force to be reckoned with on the ski jumps and especially at the Four Hills Tournament: In the three-way battle of the ÖSV "super eagles" on Saturday in Innsbruck, defending World Cup champion Stefan Kraft came out on top by a wafer-thin 1.4 points ahead of last year's winner Jan Hörl and previous tour leader Daniel Tschofenig.
With his first Innsbruck victory, his 45th World Cup win in total, Kraft also took the lead in the overall standings.
It is the second ÖSV triple victory after Oberstdorf in the course of this tour, the third in four World Cup competitions (including Engelberg) and the first in Innsbruck since 1975.
ÖSV triple lead ahead of Bischofshofen
This is the third time in the history of the tour that Austria has taken a triple lead ahead of the final in Bischofshofen: this was previously the case in 2010 and 2012. The first overall victory for an Austrian in ten years now seems almost impossible to prevent: Stefan Kraft is one of the three candidates as the 2014/15 winner - he leads by 0.6 points ahead of Hörl and 1.3 ahead of Tschofenig before the "Golden Eagle" is awarded on Epiphany in Bischofshofen. Fourth-placed Gregor Deschwanden from Switzerland is already 23.8 points behind Kraft.
The Austrians had already caused huge cheers and a strong performance in front of around 20,000 fans in the cauldron on the Bergisel at half-time: last year's winner Hörl landed last at 134 meters as the qualifying winner and thus went into the second round 0.5 points ahead of Kraft (131.5 m) and 0.9 ahead of Tschofenig (132.5).
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