"Of course it's a great feeling to celebrate my first victory here. Both jumps were good, I think I was also the best in the final round. I didn't really notice what happened before me because I was focused on myself and my jump" said the very happy winner.

Sinkovec praises Almaty - the city and the hill

And the Slovenes could even celebrate a double victory because Jure Sinkovec (250.8 points) was on the podium for the first time as second. "I'm very satisfied with the jumps and of course also with the result", said Sinkovec, who also praised Almaty and the hill. "This is a nice city and the hill here is great."

The third place went to Norway's Anders Fannemel (250.5), who replaced his teammate Tom Hilde on the podium. Hilde came in only tenth on the Kazakh national holiday. "My jumps are getting better and better", said Fannemel, who was already showing good performances in Hakuba. "I really enjoyed it."

Zografski closely missed the podium

Bulgarian Vladimir Zografski was fourth and missed his first podium result by only 1.9 points with his total of 248.6 points. Piotr Zyla was the best of the Polish team as fifth, followed by the best Russian Pavel Karelin. Dejan Judez (7th) and Mitja Meznar (12th) completed the top result of the Slovenian team of the new head coach Goran Janus. For the Czech Republic, Borek Sedlak closely missed the Top 10 as eleventh but showed that his shape is on the up.

Under increasing tailwind the jumpers got a longer inrun, but the conditions became more and more difficult. In spite of these problems, most athletes were able to show good jumps. 

Best German only 13th

The Germans, who competed in Kazakhstan with some young enforcement, could all score points, but weren't able to achieve a top result. Andreas Wank was their best as 13th. David Winkler and Markus Eisenbichler could finish ahead of Michael Neumayer, who fell in the outrun.

Two Kazakhs scored points

Unfortunately Slovakian Tomas Zmoray could not reach the final round after he had shown good performances in training. Surprisingly also ski flying world record holder Johan Remen Evensen from Norway could also not score points today and had to realize that there's still a lot of work to do for him until the winter.

Two out of the seven Kazakhs could qualify for the final round. But there were only 39 participants so only nine did not make the cut for the second round. Cheered on by the spectators, Alexey Korolev (25th) and Evgeni Levkin (26th), who won the Asian Winter Games on this year in February, could score points for the hosts.

Morgenstern close to overall victory

Thomas Morgenstern, who did not take part in the three competitions in Asia, is close to winning the overall ranking. He now has a lead of 150 points with only two more competitions to go. After 2003 and 2007, this would be the third overall victory for the Austrian. With that he would close up to Adam Malysz who won in 2001, 2004 and 2006.

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