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Oberstdorf (dpa) - Long-awaited premiere for women, Corona failure of the all-outshining top favorite for men: This day will definitely go down in the ski jumpers' World Cup history books.

While the Norwegian Maren Lundby secured gold at the first large hill competition for women and thus gave the German hopefuls Juliane Seyfarth (10th) and Katharina Althaus (12th) no chance, ski jumping star Halvor Egner Granerud has to dream of his give up first individual World Cup title prematurely.

The overall World Cup leader from Norway tested positive for the corona virus, as it became known on Wednesday.

His findings and two other corona cases in Italy's ski jumping team depress the mood at the title fights in Oberstdorf and for the first time also have a concrete sporting effect.

"I'm pretty sad, but I feel completely okay with lighter symptoms," the 24-year-old Granerud was quoted as saying by the Norwegian Ski Association on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, trainer Alexander Stöckl puzzled over the transmission of the virus.

«We don't know where that came from.

We have had no contact with other people, »said Stoeckl on ZDF.

Granerud had previously announced on social networks: "There are ups and downs in life. And this season has been a dream come true for me, and I have achieved my goals," wrote Granerud, who is the leader in the overall World Cup, on social networks.

“I'm a little uncomfortable, but I'm fine.

For me, that shows how important it is to be careful. "

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He feels that he has done everything to avoid a corona infection - and yet such an infection is possible.

“That obviously means my World Cup is over, and that's a shame.

But that's life sometimes. "

For the two German ski jumpers Markus Eisenbichler and Karl Geiger, this increases the chances of an individual medal on Friday (5 p.m. / ZDF and Eurosport).

The last women's competition of this World Cup and at the same time the big debut on the large hill was spared from Corona failures.

Behind world champion Lundby (128 and 130.5 meters) Sara Takanashi (Japan) and Nika Kriznar (Slovenia) also made it into the medal ranks.

For the first time since 2013, Germany’s ski jumping team will end up with a World Cup without medals in the all-women’s competitions.

In mixed, Althaus and Anna Rupprecht, who finished 15th on Wednesday, had contributed to the gold medal three days earlier.

After the World Championships debut in 2009, the introduction of Mixed 2013 and team jumping in 2019, there is now equality between men and women at the World Championships.

«Unfortunately I couldn't show any good jumps.

Nevertheless, it was a good and a very important competition for women’s ski jumping, ”said local hero Althaus, who had always advocated more competitions in advance.

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Rupprecht especially liked the level of jumping, where there were great distances, especially at the end.

«What the girls are doing out here: Big cinema.

I really love the way they put our sport in the limelight, ”said the 24-year-old.

She hopes “that the people outside can see that there is a really good level here and that they no longer smile at us like that”.

© dpa-infocom, dpa: 210303-99-675275 / 6

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