Prevc & Hoerl Top Training, Stoch Remains a Contender Ahead of Predazzo Grand Prix
Predazzo, Italy – Domen Prevc of Slovenia and Austria’s Jan Hoerl delivered the longest jumps in seperate training sessions leading up to Saturday’s individual Summer Grand Prix competition at the Olympic hill Trampolino Dal ben (HS143). Kamil stoch of Poland consistently placed among the leaders, demonstrating strong form as qualification approaches.
prevc led the first training series with a leap of 140.5 meters, besting Stoch (134.5m) by 1.1 points. Hoerl then topped the second training round with a jump of 142 meters, exceeding Ryoyu Kobayashi (137m) by 13.8 points. These training results offer a crucial early indicator of athlete performance as the summer ski jumping season progresses, impacting seeding for Saturday’s competition and providing valuable data for athletes and teams to refine their strategies. Qualification is set to begin at 21:30 local time.
The first training session saw Kristoffer Eriksen Sundal (137m) finish third, followed by Valentin Foubert (135m) and Hoerl (134.5m). Maciej Kot of Poland secured eleventh place with 134.5m, while Aleksander Rzeczczoł (133.5m) and Dawid Kubacki (129m) finished thirteenth and thirtieth respectively. Piotr Żyła landed at 126.5m, placing thirty-sixth. The first training runs utilized starting beams 18 and 17.
Hoerl’s winning jump in the second training came from the short run, specifically the 15th beam at the request of his coach. Following Hoerl and Kobayashi, Manuel Fettner (136m) took third, with Stoch (136m) and Kubacki (134.5m) rounding out the top five. Maciej Kot placed tenth (134m), while Rzeczczoł (131.5m) and Żyła (129.5m) finished twenty-eighth and thirty-fourth, respectively. The second training was conducted from the 17th platform.
Live results can be tracked via the FIS website: http://live.skijumping.pl/ and Berkutschi reports are available at: https://www.skijumping.pl/live-berkutschi/lgp.
