With jumps of 91.5 and 89.5 meters and 254.4 points, Eva Pinkelnig won the third World Cup on Austrian soil. 3.9 points behind her in second place and for the sixth time this season, Ema Klinec from Slovenia (88.5 and 87 m; 250.5 p.) landed. Third place went to her teammate Nika Prevc (86.5 and 88 m; 248.2 points), who jumped onto the podium for the first time in the World Cup.
Katharina Althaus, finished fourth as the best German. In the exciting and close competition on the smallest hill in the World Cup, the woman from Oberstdorf was only 1.7 points off the podium. With Selina Freitag in seventh place, the second best DSV lady also ended up in the top ten.
The Canadians achieved a similarly strong result with Junior World Champion Alexandria Loutitt and Abigail Strate in fifth and tenth place. Chiara Kreuzer, who was still on course for the podium at half-time in third place, ultimately had to settle for sixth place. Sara Takanashi was the best Japanese woman in eighth place, followed by the best Norwegian Anna Odine Stroem, who fought her way up six places in the final and finished ninth.
Anna Rupprecht and Pauline Heßler ended up in 11th and 15th place, while Agnes Reisch made a successful World Cup comeback in 18th place after a six-week break and one place ahead of Luisa Gorlich landed. With Jacqueline Seifriedsberger (13th) and Julia Mühlbacher, who achieved her best World Cup result in 20th, Austria brought at least two jumpers into the top 20. Katra Komar also landed in 17th with her best result of the season.
Katharina Ellmauer was the only Austrian not to collect points. The day was still a successful one for the 22-year-old, as she qualified for a World Cup competition for the first time and achieved her best career result in 38th place. The Slovenian Ajda Kosnjek and Ingvild Synnoeve Midtskogen from Norway also achieved personal bests in 37th and 38th. Her teammate Nora Midtsundstad did not start the qualifying session, which took place at 11 a.m. in the morning, due to symptoms of illness.
After just that qualification, an extraordinary incident occurred, which, however, ended lightly: The tiller, which prepares the artificial ice track during the inrun, crashed onto the landing slope. Fortunately, however, no one was injured. “Thank God nothing happened. When the track tiller started to roll, the force generated by the around 500-kilogram device tore the cable from its anchorage. A chain of unfortunate circumstances,” was quoted by the head of organization Bernhard Zauner after the incident from the “Krone”.
