Austria has won the first Olympic men’s super team ski jumping event.
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Gold medalists Stephan Embacher and Jan Hoerl, of Austria, celebrate on the podium, with silver medalists Pawel Wasek and Kacper Tomasiak, of Poland, and bronze medalists Kristoffer Eriksen Sundal and Johann Andre Forfang, of Norway, after the ski jumping men's super team competition at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Predazzo, Italy, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. Jan Hoerl, of Austria, reacts after his final round jump of the ski jumping men's super team competition at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Predazzo, Italy, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. Pawel Wasek, left, and Kamil Stoch, both of Poland, wait while a snowfall interrupts the final round jump of the ski jumping men's super team competition at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Predazzo, Italy, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. Domen Prevc, of Slovenia, launches off the ramp during his final round jump of the ski jumping men's super team competition at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Predazzo, Italy, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. Ren Nikaido, of Japan, left, and Philipp Raimund, of Germany, react as a snowfall interrupts the final round jump of the ski jumping men's super team competition at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Predazzo, Italy, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. Gold medalists Stephan Embacher and Jan Hoerl, of Austria, celebrate on the podium, with silver medalists Pawel Wasek and Kacper Tomasiak, of Poland, and bronze medalists Kristoffer Eriksen Sundal and Johann Andre Forfang, of Norway, after the ski jumping men's super team competition at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Predazzo, Italy, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. – A disappointing Olympics for Austria's ski jumpers turned to gold Monday on the final night of competition in the debut of the men’s super teamJan Hoerl and Olympic rookie Stephan Embacher led through the event before a snow squall forced the cancellation of the final round of the event.The result was redemption for Austria, which won the men’s team event in Beijing in 2022, but had not “The last 10 days were hard for our team so it was the last chance today,” said Hoerl, who was part of the 2022 winning team. “We knew that, so we kept focused and we were able to enjoy five good jumps. It’s amazing, unbelievable.” Hoerl's best individual finish had been a fifth on the men's large hill and Embacher's had been a pair of seventh place finishes on each hill. Both had also been on the mixed team that finished fifth. The new format replaced the former four-man team contest on the large hill with teams of two. Seventeen nations jumped in the first round and the top 12 made the second round. The best eight moved on to the final. But as heavy snow and wind held up competition with only a few skiers left to make their final jump, the round was canceled and the second round standings determined the winners. Sandro Pertile, race director for the international ski federation, said the heavy, wet snow was slowing speeds on the in-run and the shift in winds was going to create unfair conditions for the remaining competitors. Hoerl opened with a 137.5-meter jump and Embacher in the second round landed a 139-meter jump, the longest in the contest.Austria led Slovenia, Poland, Germany and Japan after the first round. Poland moved into second and Norway into third as Slovenia slid into fifth place after the second round.on the World Cup circuit, who has been the surprise of men's Olympic ski jumping, winning a silver on the normal hill and a bronze on the large hill. He was paired with Pawel Wasek, whose best Olympic finish had been sixth in a team event in 2022.Norway's Johann André Forfang, who had won gold on the large hill and silver on the normal hill in Pyeongchang in 2018 but had not had a good Olympics before Monday was paired with Kristoffer Eriksen Sundal, who won silver in the mixed team event.Forfang and teammate Marius Lindvik were suspended for three months last year after their coaches and a staff member were caught on camera adding stitching to stiffen the crotch area to help the athletes fly farther. Neither Lindvik nor Forfang was charged with knowing about the manipulation, but FIS said they “should have checked and asked questions about the nighttime adjustments.”Japan’s Ren Nikaido, who has won a medal in every ski jump at this Olympics, landed a third jump of 138 meters, which could have put Japan on the podium had the final round not been canceled before Ryoyu Kobayashi's final jump., the dominant skier this season, was one of the few jumpers to fly in the heavy snow, with a poor result of 124.5 meters., who won gold on the normal hill, then flew 136 meters through the snow, putting his country in the lead with four jumpers — all with higher second-round scores — remaining. Tomasiak was the last skier to fly through the flakes, coming up short and putting Poland in third behind Slovenia.Raimund said it was sad ending up in fourth place. The result meant Prevc could not add to the gold medals he won on the men’s large hill and in the mixed team competition in his first Olympics —“It was almost third place, but overall it is a bit sour for me," Prevc said. “Unfortunately, we have to take this as it is.”The U.S. team of Kevin Bickner and Tate Frantz made it to the final round but ended up in eighth place.Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. 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