Engelberg

The first of two sheduled events at Engleberg was cancelled, but the second was completed and it finally gave Janne Ahonen his first win of the season.

Mediocre first round jumps from Andreas Kuettel and Jakub Janda enabled Ahonen to take advantage and overtake Janda by one point in the overall world cup standings, whilst Kuettel took over top spot.

Roar Ljoekelsoey headed the field after the first round a full 3.5 metres ahead of Ahonen in second. However, the seond round was less kind to him with a paltry 121.0 metres sinking him to 4th place.

Overhauling Ljoekelsoey to take places on the podium were Kuettel and Andreas Kofler, the Swiss recovering from 12th to take third place. Meanwhile Kofler's second place gave him his second podium finish of the season, after his win in Harrachov, but only served to underline the inconsistency preventing him from improving on his current WC position of 6th.

(Janne Ahonen of Finland, winner in Engelberg)

The season hots up with the start of the Four Hills tournament in Oberstdorf next on the agenda.


Full results from Engelberg can be found here.


Latest World Cup standings can be found here.

Harrachov (1) 2005/6

Having taken the lead after a strange first round, Andreas Kofler of Austria triumphed in the latest round of the ski-jumping World Cup in the Czech Republic. It was the 21 year-old policeman's first ever World Cup victory and propelled him into the top 10 in the World Cup and was set up by a massive jump of 152.5 metres in the first round, over 10 metres further than anyone else.

He was aided and abeted by some poor jumps in the first round by most of the big guns. World Cup leader, Andreas Kuttel could manage only 10th having just watched his nearest challenger jump into 9th. The biggest loser though was the Lillehammer winner Thomas Morgenstern who could only manage a woeful 40th place and failed to qualify for a second effort.

Kuettel and Janda did manage to improve the second time up and rose up to 5th and 4th respectively and limited the gains of Finn, Janne Ahonen whose consistency saw him take the bottom step on the podium. Second place was claimed by Michael Uhrmann, who recorded his best result of the season in doing so.

(winner Andreas Kofler)

Full results can be found here.

Updated World Cup standings are here.