Kamil Stoch and Ryoyu Kobayashi triumph in Engelberg and send signals for the Tourn and

As per tradition, the men's jumping World Cup on the pre-Christmas weekend made a stop in Engelberg, where two individual races were staged, the last before the highly anticipated Tour of the four trampolines.

Monday 23 December 2019 4 minutes reading time

As the most important event of the season approaches, all the top nations and their leaders have highlighted progress in technical, condition and material levels. If Ryoyu Kobayashi had returned to victory last week, in the first race of Engelberg he saw himself again on the top step of the podium Kamil Stoch. The Polish, already in command midway through the race, defended himself from the comeback attempt of Stefan Kraft, beaten by 1.7 points, thus conquering his 34th career victory in the World Cup. With the 80 points of the second square Kraft has conquered the yellow bib of leader of the general, slipping it from the shoulders of Ryoyu Kobayashi, 4th behind Karl Geiger. Daniel Andre Tande did not score points, 33 Â° at the end of the first jump and eliminated. Despite the disappointing test of its leader, the team norge has done well, placing Lindvik 5th, Forfang 6th and Johansson 9th. Among them were Daniel Huber 7th, Piotr Zyla 8th and Pius Paschke 10th. Here the complete result. As happened last year, in race 2 the scene was all of Ryoyu Kobayashi, who with a sensational jump in the second series (132.5 m with strong wind behind him) recovered from seventh place, trimming over 9 points off the competition . With today's triumph the Japanese has reached the significant milestone of 15 victories and regained the yellow bib, to the detriment of Kraft, who fell without apparent physical consequences in the second series and 18th in the standings. Behind Kobayashi came Peter Prevc, capable of preceding the Austrian Jan Hoerl 3rd on the first podium of his career, and Karl Geiger 4th. Excellent Austrian team test with Daniel Huber 5th and Philipp Aschenwald 6th who finished ahead of Norwegians Lindvik and Johansson, respectively 7th and 8th, and Kamil Stoch 9th. Here the complete result. On the eve of the Tour of the 4 trampolines Ryoyu Kobayashi is in command of the World Cup standings with 440 points, the result of two victories, a third place and a constant performance that allowed him to never leave the top 6. In pursuit of the Japanese there are Kraft and Geiger with 369 and 347 lengths, which precede Stoch (275) and Tande (273). Here the World Cup ranking.

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