Embacher and Kvandal wins ski flying as Prevcs falter
Austria's Stephan Embacher celebrates on the podium after winning the men's competition at the FIS Ski Flying World Cup in Vikersund. Trond R Teigen/NTB/dpa Stephan Embacher claimed his first World Cup victory and Eirin Maria Kvandal won the women's event on the Vikersund ski flying hill on a rare day without victory for Prevc family. Austria's Embacher recorded 232 and 225 metres to beat Japan's Tomofumi Naito by 12.
3 points. Naito had a competition leading 240m in the first round. Johann Andre Forfang from hosts Norway was third.
World Cup and skiflying world champion Domen Prevc of Slovenia meanwhile had to settle for fifth with 211m and 218. 5m. His sister Nika, who also already clinched the World Cup title, lost a first round lead with a modest second to finish third behind Kvandal and Sweden's Frida Westman.
Kvandal soared 218 and 223 metres for a second Vikersund success, a third of the season and ninth of her career. She won 5. 4 points ahead of Westman whose two jumps of 225m gave her a career best second place and a second podium, more than three years after her first.
World Cup champion Prevc had led the first round with 224m but only managed 204. 5m in the second as she slipped to third. Norwegian double Olympic champion Anna Odine Strøm had the biggest jump of the competition with 235.