The German ski jumping women won the gold medal at the first ever World Cup team competition. In the cast Juliane Seyfarth, Ramona Straub, Carina Vogt and Katharina Althaus, the DSV quartet (898.9 points) prevailed in Seefeld ahead of Austria (880.3) and Norway (876.9).
Following on from their success in Zao in Japan and in Ljubno in Slovenia, Germany also won the third team competition this winter. For the DSV team it was in Seefeld after titles of Markus Eisenbichler, Eric Frenzel, the ski jumping team and the combiners Frenzel and Fabian Riessle already the fifth gold medal at this World Cup. The record of Falun 2015 (five titles) and Lahti 2017 (six titles) is almost finished after 12 out of 22 competitions.
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Carina Vogt
The competition was not yet part of the program at the previous World Cup and at the Olympic Winter Games a year ago in Pyeongchang. Also for Seefeld the organizers announced only a few weeks before the start of the World Cup, that the women in the team may fight for medals. National coach Andreas Bauer and the athletes had repeatedly spoken out loud for the increase in the program at major events. On Wednesday (16:15 clock, TV: ZDF and Eurosport, live ticker SPIEGEL ONLINE) is the individual on the program.
Althaus and Straub were the guarantors for the success with a good ten meters advantage. Final jumper Althaus, who had already made ten podium finishes this winter, finished with a jump of 104.5 and 99.5 meters. For them it was the second world title after the Mixed 2015 in Falun. Vogt even won the fifth world title after twice single and twice mixed gold. That has not made a German ski jumper before the 27-year-olds. Straub and Seyfarth are world champions for the first time.