SKIVO Four Hills
Steady jumping beats three hill wins in SKIVO Four Hills
🇯🇵 kirinuki won SKIVO Four Hills week 42 with 1070.7 points, 4.3 ahead of 🇫🇮 jajaja, without winning a single hill.
Consistency decided the week. 🇯🇵 kirinuki from Japan finished 10th on Felsach, 5th on Kuusivaara, 2nd on Jodłowa and 3rd on Gletschhorn. No hill win, but no bad day either, and it was enough for a first SKIVO Four Hills title at the first attempt.
🇫🇮 jajaja came closest. The Finn matched the champion's 268.7 points on Jodłowa, also for second place there, but 14th on Felsach and 13th on Kuusivaara left a gap that never closed. 🇫🇮 Jönssi took third, 9.7 points behind, helped by 3rd on Kuusivaara. Finland placed four jumpers in the top ten, with 🇫🇮 Julius Malysz fourth and 🇫🇮 Mikulitsi ninth.
The best single performer of the week finished only eighth. Removed player won three of the four hills, Felsach, Kuusivaara and Gletschhorn, and posted the top score of the whole event with 280.5 points on the last one. But Jodłowa went wrong: 68th place and 240.3 points, 30.2 behind the hill winner. That cost the German any chance of the title, and he ended 18.1 points back.
🇦🇹 grilleranger of Austria took the Jodłowa win with 270.5 points, the only hill not won by Removed player. Nobody won all four hills, so there was no Grand Slam.
Further down the top ten, Felsach was the trouble spot for several jumpers. 🇩🇪 JR1990 was 29th there and still finished sixth, and 🇵🇱 Bober was 32nd and ended seventh.
None of last week's podium took part this time, so the title went to a new name. In all, 139 jumpers from 19 countries started, and 123 completed all eight jumps.
Final standings
| pts | Behind | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇯🇵 kirinuki | 1070.7 | |
| 2 | 🇫🇮 jajaja | 1066.4 | −4.3 |
| 3 | 🇫🇮 Jönssi | 1061.0 | −9.7 |
| 4 | 🇫🇮 Julius Malysz | 1060.2 | −10.5 |
| 5 | 🇩🇪 Toto Bae | 1060.0 | −10.7 |
| 6 | 🇩🇪 JR1990 | 1058.2 | −12.5 |
| 7 | 🇵🇱 Bober | 1055.5 | −15.2 |
| 8 | Removed player | 1052.6 | −18.1 |
| 9 | 🇫🇮 Mikulitsi | 1049.2 | −21.5 |
| 10 | 🇦🇹 Lrdtrllalot | 1048.9 | −21.8 |
Written with the help of AI from the results.