Gold for Germany! A thrilling men’s normal hill comes to an end with Philipp Raimund taking another surprise gold. He was ranked sixth in the world coming in, but has never won an individual World Cup event. A huge jump of 106.5 takes it — with his style near perfect too. 19.5 points all around.
The Polish journalists near me had been raucous — it looked like their man, Kacper Tomasiak, had been nailed on after rocketing up from fifth with a second round jump of 107.0. Raimund needed to be perfect on the final jump of the night — and was.
Excitingly, Japan’s Ren Nikaido and Switzerland’s Gregor Deschwanden will share bronze after both scoring 266.0. The latter, in particular, was a huge shock. He’s been nowhere in the World Cup standings this season.