Daniela Iraschko-Stolz won her first home competition in Hinzenbach and took her third win in a row. With jumps on 93 m and 91.5 m and 251.4 points, the Austrian won ahead of Olympic Champion Carina Vogt, the third place went to Sara Takanashi.

Iraschko-Stolz was happy: “It's great to win three times in a row. If somebody would have told me this before the season I would not have believed it. Everything feels easy right now. I'm happy about the win in front of my home crowd and close to my home town.”

Carina Vogt scored 245.6 points with her jumps on 89 m and 88 m and said: “I'm very satisfied today, because it didn't go that well in training yesterday. I could improve in the competition and the second place is great. Even if it was close again today I think that Daniela is currently the best and her wins are well deserved.”

Takanashi moves up in the final

Takanashi, eighth after the first round, came in third with 88 m and 89 m and 236.0 points. The Japanese said: “I'm very happy and satisfied with my performance today. I was able to improve my jumps constantly. Tomorrow I'll do my best again and maybe I can improve even more.” Katharina Althaus, jumped on 87 m and 86 m and missed the podium by only 0.3 points. Yuki Ito was fifth with her jumps on 87.5 m and 84 m, only 0.3 points behind Althaus.

Close competition

In an extremely tight competition, there were only 3.9 points between the third and the tenth. Maja Vtic was sixth with 235.3 points, Maren Lundby, who won the qualification, came in seventh with 234.5 points. Sarah Hendrickson, third after the first round, swapped ranks with Takanashi and finished eighth with 233.6 points. The two Austrians Eva Pinkelnig (232.3 points) and Jacqueline Seifriedsberger (232.1 points) followed in ninth and tenth. Their teammate Chiara Hoelzl completed the great team result of the Austrians in eleventh.

Henrich and Rogelj not among the best

Behind Line Jahr, Taylor Henrich was 13th, one week after her first podium result in the World Cup. Spela Rogelj was 14th and missed the Top 10 for the first time this season. Nita Englund was 15th and could also not follow up on her very good results from Oberstdorf. Irina Avvakumova, who won two Gold medals at the Universiade this week, was 16th, French Lea Lemare achieved her best result this season in 17th. Elena Runggaldier and Evelyn Insam of the Italian team came in 28th and 30th.

The second competition in Hinzenbach follows on Sunday at 12:00 pm CET.