Winner Karl Geiger and his third-placed buddy Markus Eisenbichler gave each other enthusiastic high fives: The two German ski jumpers shone with impressive performances at the World Cup in Titisee-Neustadt just two weeks before the start of the Winter Olympics.

The 28-year-old violinist jumped 132 and 141 meters on Saturday and won ahead of Anze Lanisek from Slovenia.

He captured the overall World Cup leader's yellow jersey from Ryoyu Kobayashi of Japan.

"It was a great day for us," said national coach Stefan Horngacher on ARD.

"Two people on the podium, you can't do much better than that." Eisenbichler landed with his two attempts at 132.5 and 132 meters.

After his second jump, he patted his chest contentedly.

"Yes," he exclaimed when his interim lead was certain.

Behind Geiger, Eisenbichler and Stephan Leyhe (8th), who were previously scheduled to take part in the Olympics, Constantin Schmid was the most convincing.

The 22-year-old finished ninth, qualifying himself for a Beijing ticket.

Severin Freund was 17th, Pius Paschke was eliminated after the first round.

Andreas Wellinger tested positive

Horngacher announced that he would sit down with his fellow coaches on Saturday evening and decide on the two remaining spots for the Winter Games (February 4th to 20th).

"We'll take our time and discuss everything," he said.

Who is there will be communicated on Sunday.

Olympic champion Andreas Wellinger didn't get the last chance to advertise himself.

The 26-year-old tested positive for the corona virus shortly before the World Cup weekend and had to isolate himself.

"Shit happens, let's move on," he said.

Other nations also have corona problems.

Among others, the two Poles Dawid Kubacki and Piotr Zyla are currently not there after positive tests.

Daniel-André Tande, Johann André Forfang, Fredrik Villumstad and Marius Lindvik were missing from the strong Norwegian team when jumping from the Hochfirstschanze.

Due to the very strict entry rules in Japan, the competition location had stepped in for the originally intended organizer Sapporo.

Richard Freitag was therefore allowed to start in the so-called national group and, as 21st, scored his first World Cup points in over a year.

Justin Lisso, who surprisingly finished eleventh, and Philipp Raimund (27th) also secured points.