After finishing 24th once and going out three times in the initial four World Cup competitions, Kristoffer Jakobsen struck with a cannon ride in Alta Badia.
After being only six hundredths ahead of the best skier who did not make it to the second run, he rose enormously in the second.
Jakobsen rode the second ride at a time that made him climb all the way to a twelfth place, 86 hundredths of a first place.
However, it was not just Jakobsen who climbed in the second run.
The victorious Swiss Ramon Zenhaeusern climbed from eighth place and won before the Austrians Manuel Feller, 13th in first, and Marco Schwarz, tenth in first.
The one who was closest to Jakobsen's time in the second run was Feller who was 38 hundredths behind the Swede.