Pagnier won premiere World Cup in Engelberg

Josephine Pagnier is the first World Cup winner in Engelberg. However, the exciting finale was overshadowed by a serious fall for Norwegian Anna Odine Stroem.

Pagnier, after her qualifying victory yesterday, won the first women's individual World Cup in Engelberg on Friday afternoon with 132 and 135.5 meters and 293 points.  Second place went to Alexandria Loutitt, who after 128 meters in the final set the new hill record of 139 meters and moved up from fourth to second place with 290.2 points.  Third place went to Ema Klinec with 134 and 135 meters and 289.4 points.

Before the last three jumps of the day, however, there was a shocking moment: Anna Odine Stroem started the second round in fourth place, landed there at 122 meters, tilted and hit hard on the wavy and icy slope. The Norwegian woman then had to be given first aid and taken away on a stretcher. Meanwhile, Austria recorded a great team result with fourth, fifth and tenth places for Jacqueline Seifriedsberger, Sara Marita Kramer and Lisa Eder.

Yuki Ito, who was right after Stroem, took a good sixth place despite the long wait, while Jenny Rautionaho achieved her best World Cup result in ninth place. The good Slovenian team performance was also reflected in seventh and eighth place for Nika Prevc and Nika Kriznar, as well as 17th place for Ajda Kosnjek, who was able to gain ten places in the final on the way to her best World Cup result, and Katra Komar on 18th place. The 17-year-old Taja Bodlaj collected her first World Cup points ever and ultimately finished 25th.

Katharina Schmid took 13th place as the best DSV athlete. Luisa Görlich and Selina Freitag were also able to improve in the final and ended up in positions 15 and 16, while Anna Rupprecht came 23rd.

Former combiner Annika Sieff from Italy recorded her best World Cup result in eleventh place. Sieff's teammate Lara Malsiner achieved her first top 30 result of the season with 29th place and benefited from Eirin Maria Kvandal not starting in the final round. The Norwegian had to struggle with some turbulence in her first round, right after the take-off table and on the landing approach.

Among the ten jumpers who were unable to score any World Cup points were two prominent Norwegians, Thea Minyan Bjoerseth (32nd) and Silje Opseth (33rd). The two Swiss representatives Sina Arnet and Emely Torazza also missed out on making it into the top 30 in 35th and 39th place.