Prevc wins the tournament, Hoffmann best German
The 74th Four Hills Tournament has been decided, and the winner is Domen Prevc. Exactly ten years after the triumph of his brother Peter Prevc, the 26-year-old Slovenian pulls away from the competition and claims overall victory with a total of 1,195.6 points and a comfortable margin of 43.3 points. Second place in the overall standings goes to Austria’s Jan Hörl (1,153.3 points), followed closely by his teammate Stephan Embacher (1,150.6 points).
Last year’s overall winner Daniel Tschofenig secures the day victory in Bischofshofen in front of a home crowd of 12,500 fans. Jumps of 137 and 140.5 meters are enough to beat the current dominant athlete at least in the individual event. In the end, Tschofenig wins by 4.1 points ahead of Domen Prevc and Ryoyu Kobayashi, who finishes just 0.2 points behind the Slovenian.
In the final competition on Epiphany Day, three out of five German ski jumpers make it into the second round. The best German athlete in Bischofshofen is Felix Hoffmann. With jumps of 133 and 137 meters, he finishes tenth in the day’s results. Thanks to his consistent performances across all four hills, the athlete from Thuringia also achieves the best German result in the overall standings of the tournament, finishing sixth overall.
Felix Hoffmann sums up his tournament: “Definitely a cool tournament. Today wasn’t a completely satisfying finish, but even with those jumps I still ended up in 10th place. I think that shows that a lot of things are working well and that, overall, we brought everything to a solid and satisfying conclusion.”
Despite clearly suffering from a cold, Philipp Raimund finishes in twelfth place. After the first round, Raimund had been sixth in the intermediate standings but was unable to hold his position in the final round after a jump of 129.5 meters. In the overall standings, the 25-year-old from SC Oberstdorf moves into the top ten, finishing eighth.
Pius Paschke finishes 24th in today’s competition. The ski jumper from WSV Kiefersfelden won his duel against Yukiya Sato “by default,” effectively receiving a bye into the final round. The Japanese athlete was unfortunately ill and unable to compete. As a result, Paschke finishes 23rd in the overall standings of the tournament.
After the last of the four competitions, Pius Paschke reflects on his struggle with his own performance:“In ski jumping, people always talk about looseness—about letting things flow a bit, where you might make mistakes but they don’t affect you as much. Then you can still jump far despite mistakes. That’s not quite the case for me at the moment. Right now, I feel every mistake directly in the distance.”
See the official results from Bischofshofen
Andreas Wellinger (35th place) and Karl Geiger (45th place) fail to qualify for a second jump after losing their knockout duels. Both are eliminated early in the first round. In the overall standings, the two experienced athletes finish only 36th and 45th respectively—certainly not the result either of them had hoped for.
Overview of the overall standings of the Four Hills Tournament
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