TITISEE-NEUSTADT, Germany (AP) — World champion Kamil Stoch of Poland beat four-time Olympic champion Simon Ammann on Sunday for his first ski jump World Cup win of the season.
Stoch took the lead with a jump of 142.5 meters in the first round and held off Ammann’s challenge with 138.5 in the second for a total of 300.7 points.
Ammann equaled Stoch’s first-round jump for distance but was fifth on judges’ points. Ammann finished with 292.9 points.
Japan’s Noriaki Kasai was third with jumps of 139.5 and 137.5 for 292.0 points.
Saturday’s winner, Thomas Morgenstern of Austria, crashed on his landing after a jump of 141.0 and was airlifted by helicopter to a hospital in nearby Freiburg.
