Slovene Peter Prevc was the best in the first qualification in Engelberg. With a jump on 131.5 m (140.4 points) Prevc won ahead of Norwegian Tom Hilde, who jumped on 140 m (139.6 points) under perfect conditions, and Jaka Hvala, also of Slovenia (125.5 m; 135 points).
Under good conditions and temperatures of a bit over 0°C Prevc was satisfied with his win. "I like the hill here more and more. Let's see what I can achieve tomorrow. I hope that my jumps will be about as good as the one in today's qualification and then it might get a Top 10 result", said Prevc.
For his jump on 140 m - only one meter short of the hill record Simon Ammann set in 2004 - Tom Hilde of Norway had the perfect wind conditions and knew how to use it. "At first my jump didn't even feel that good, but then I went very far. I worked hard, but I'm still lacking the good results. Now I hope that I can show similar jumps tomorrow and then I'm definitely satisfied", told Hilde. Slovene Jaka Hvala could continue the strong trend of the past weeks with his third place.
Polish team improved
The recent training camps of Poland's Kamil Stoch in Ramsau and Zakopane were obviously productive. With his fourth place in the qualification Stoch made an impressive comeback after his crises at the beginning of the season. Not only Stoch, also the rest of the Polish team showed improvement, all athletes of head coach Lukasz Kruczek could qualify for Saturday's competition.
Neumayer, Wank and Geiger were the three German athletes who had to qualify and all of them could do that without any problems. As expected, also all Austrians could qualify for the competition.
The qualification was not that successful for the Swiss hosts. Three of them failed to make the cut in the high-level qualification. Pascal Kaelin, Pascal Sommer and Pascal Egloff could not qualify. Also the new coach of the Korean team, Wolfgang Hartmann, will have to take this qualification as a lesson. Both Koreans will not be able to compete on Saturday.
Of the pre-qualified athletes, especially local hero Simon Ammann (130 m) and the two Germans Richard Freitag (128 m) and Severin Freudn (126 m) could show convincing performances.
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