Germany clinch normal hill team gold in Rasnov
BySportsbeat
Updated 19/02/2023 at 23:08 GMT
Karl Geiger and Andreas Wellinger powered to normal hill gold in Rasnov, Romania with a comfortable victory on Sunday. Wellinger followed up individual victory on Saturday with bronze medallist Geiger, as the pair finished a comfortable 33.8 points ahead of Slovenia's Maksim Bartolj and Ziga Jelar. Stream the 2022-23 winter sports season on discovery+
Geiger Karl (L) and Andreas Wellinger of Germany, winners of men normal hill "Super Team" event of "FIS Ski Jumping World Cup" in Rasnov , Romania on February 19, 2023.
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Germany clinched World Cup gold in the men's normal hill team event in Rasnov, as Karl Geiger and Andreas Wellinger powered to victory.
Wellinger followed up individual victory on Saturday with bronze medallist Geiger, as the pair finished a comfortable 33.8 points ahead of Slovenia's Maksim Bartolj and Ziga Jelar.
It was two-time Olympic gold medallist Wellinger's third gold of the 2022-23 World Cup season, with all three coming in February after solo victories in Lake Placid and Rasnov in the last two weeks.
It was a first gold, and third podium, of the season for Geiger, who followed up his first podium since December on Saturday with victory on Sunday.
"We both did a good job, especially at the back," said Wellinger. "Both of our first jumps were mixed but we can now go to Planica with confidence."
Austrian pair Philipp Aschenwald and Clemens Aigner completed the podium with a third-place finish, 2.3 points behind the Slovenian duo but a healthy 17 points ahead of Norway's Daniel Andre Tande and Kristoffer Eriksen Sundal.
The competition moves on to Planica, Slovenia next week, where Wellinger will be hoping he can make it back-to-back victories to continue to close the gap in the overall standings, where Norway's Halvor Egner Granerud continues to lead the way.
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