STA, 24 March 2019 - Overall World Cup winner Ryoyu Kobayashi of Japan won the final event of the World Cup season in Planica on Sunday after equalising the hill record in the first series. Domen Prevc of Slovenia finished second ahead of Friday's winner, the German Markus Eisenbichler.
Kobayashi managed to equalise the giant hill record of 252 metres in the first series, just a metre and a half below the world record, and cemented his 13th season win with 230.5 metres to beat Prevc, who flew 239.5 and 222.4 metres, by almost 25 points.
Eisenbichler in third was just a point and a half shy of Prevc with jumps of 227 and 235 metres.
"I feel wonderful, the emotions are out in full force," Prevc said about his performance in front of the home crowd. "I knew I'd be on the podium, but I did not know I'd take the lead," he said.
Slovenia had two more top-ten finishes, as Timi Zajc grabbed fifth place and Anže Semenič was ninth with a personal best of 241 metres.
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* Results: 1. Ryoyu Kobayashi (Jap) 464,9 points (252,0/230,5 metres) 2. Domen Prevc (Slo) 444,0 (239,5/222,5) 3. Markus Eisenbichler (Ger) 442,5 (227,0/235,0) 4. Piotr Žyla (Pol) 438,6 (248,0/222,0) 5. Timi Zajc (Slo) 425,4 (231,5/229,5) 6. Dawid Kubacki (Pol) 424,8 (229,5/234,0) 7. Karl Geiger (Nem) 422,8 (238,5/228,0) 8. Johann Andre Forfang (Nor) 416,2 (225,0/223,5) 9. Anže Semenič (Slo) 413,8 (241,0/224,0) 10. Jevgenij Klimov (Rus) 411,7 (233,0/221,5) ... 19. Peter Prevc (Slo) 381,0 (221,5/204,5) 29. Anže Lanišek (SLO) 317,8 (195,5/201,5) ... - Final World Cup standings: 1. Ryoyu Kobayashi (Jap) 2085 2. Stefan Kraft (Aut) 1349 3. Kamil Stoch (Pol) 1288 4. Piotr Žyla (Pol) 1131 5. Dawid Kubacki (Pol) 988 6. Robert Johansson (Nor) 974 7. Markus Eisenbichler (Nem) 937 8. Johann Andre Forfang (Nor) 892 9. Timi Zajc (Slo) 833 10. Karl Geiger (Nem) 765 ... 13. Domen Prevc (Slo) 542 28. Anže Semenič (Slo) 203 29. Peter Prevc (Slo) 179 30. Anže Lanišek (Slo) 177
