Thanks to a fabulous flight of 147 meters, the Norwegian exceptional combined athlete Jarl Magnus Riiber is on the way to his fourth gold medal at the World Championships in Planica, Slovenia.
After ski jumping on the large hill, the 25-year-old is 36 seconds ahead of second-placed Japanese Ryota Yamamoto. “It was like a jump like a string was pulled,” said the impressed world championship record medalist Eric Frenzel on ARD. “Just madness.” National coach Hermann Weinbuch spoke of a “dream jump” and said: “That was a rocket.”
As the best German, Julian Schmid is fourth in the decisive cross-country race over ten kilometers on Saturday afternoon (3 p.m. / ARD and Eurosport). The gap between the man from Oberstdorf and the bronze medalist and the Estonian Kristjan Ilves is 22 seconds. Schmid has medal chances. Olympic champions Vinzenz Geiger, Johannes Rydzek and Manuel Faißt are already far behind.
