Gregor Schlierenzauer repeated last year's triumph in Willingen and celebrated his 32nd World Cup victory ahead of 16 000 spectators. The Austrian, who had a bad jump in the trail round, laid the foundation for this victory in the first round. He had a perfect take-off and showed the longest jump of the round with 142.5 m although the jury reduced the inrun during the round. In the final round he jumped 137 m, shorter than the leader Anders Jacobsen from Norway. But at the end it was enough. Schlierenzauer scored 273.7 points, Jacobsen 269.0 points. After his victory in Oberstdorf, Jacobsen was on the podium again and showed that he is in the right shape for the Olympics.

The duel between Austria and Norway for the prize money of 100 000 Euro for the FIS Team Tour winner is not yet decided. Thomas Morgenstern finished fourth, 0.1 points ahead of the second best Norwegian Tom Hilde, who was fifth. 

Neumayer on the podium

To the joy of the fans at the "Muehlenkopfschanze", local hero Michael Neumayer jumped on a sensational third place. Last year he didn't make it to the final, this time he was on the podium. Awesome. This was the second podium finish of his career for Neumayer.

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But also the teammates of Neumayer showed a great competition. Michael Uhrmann was tenth, followed by Martin Schmitt as eleventh. Severin Freund (19th), Pascal Bodmer (21st) and Andreas Wank (24th) completed the good result of the German team. 

Great team performance of the Austrians

Once again the Austrians were outstanding. Not only did Gregor Schlierenzauer win again and Thomas Morgenstern finished fourth. No, Junior World Champion Michael Hayboeck landed on a great sixth place, David Zauner was eighth and Andreas Kofler was ninth. Five Austrians in the Top 10, that's not bad. Jakub Janda achieved a top result for the Czech team as seventh, the best of this season.

The Norwegians showed that they have good chances to win a medal at the Olympics, at least in the team competition, maybe even Gold. Because Anders Bardal and Johan Remen Evensen finished 12th and 13th. 

Schlierenzauer makes up points

The only Pole in the competition, Grzegorz Mietus, showed a good competition. He made it to the final and scored some World Cup points as 20th. A good result for the 18-year-old. Andrea Morassi also achieved a very good result as 18th. Unfortunately his Italian teammates Sebastian Colloredo and Diego Dellasega were disqualified due to too big suits. Both would have scored World Cup points. But still the Italians showed that there's something going on on the other side of the Alps.

Gregor Schlierenzauer, who travelled to the airport in Paderborn right after the competition to start his trip to Vancouver, made up 100 points and is now only 57 points behind Simon Ammann, who did not compete in Willingen.

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