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31e victoire en coupe du monde

Comme l'an passé les aigles Autrichiens commencent la saison avec un succès sur le concours par équipes de Wisla.

Il aura fallu attendre le dernier des huit sauts pour voir le vainqueur en titre du général de la coupe du monde se poser à 127m, pour connaître le nom de la nation gagnante.

Mis sous pression par l'Allemagne et son ultime sauteur Markus Einsenbichler, Stefan Kraft n'a pas craqué.

Très bien accompagné par Michael Hayboeck, Daniel Huber et Philipp Aschenwald, il vient offrir ce 31e succès de l'histoire à son pays.

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L'Allemagne, très solide, se classe deuxième à 7.7 points avec Paschke, Schmid, Geiger et Eisenbihcler.

Troisième rang pour les locaux Polonais, à 16 points, avec Zyla, Muranka, Stoch et Kubacki

La Norvège manque le podium avec une 4e place qui ne satisfera personne. Suivent le Japon avec un R.Kobayashi décevant, la Slovénie, la Russie, la Suisse et la République Tchèque.

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Les réactions

Stefan Kraft (AUT):

"It's a great hill, but it's always a bit tricky with the wind, it can change really fast from tail wind to head wind. It was a perfect start for us. First World Cup, first victory. We had eight good jumps on a really high level.

Congrats also to Germany and Poland, it was a hard fight.

Karl Geiger (GER):

"It was great day for us and it was really nice to compete again. It's been a long time since the last competition and so we were really excited. We are happy that we were on the podium today and now we are looking forward to tomorrow.

My goals for the season are to stay healthy and to make the best jumps possible on every weekend. The past weeks were not that good for me so I'm really happy about my shape now."

Kamil Stoch (POL):

"Today's competition was on a really high level. As a team we did everything we could do show our best jumps and I think we did a really good job. The third place is very good at the beginning of the season.

I was struggling with really strong headaches during the entire competition. I just wanted to jump as well as I could but it was a fight for me today with something I couldn't control.

I jumped really well yesterday and today so I'm satisfied with my shape, but of course there's still room for improvement and I'll try to improve day by day and weekend by weekend."

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Le classement complet ICI