Kobayashi earns victory in Lahti

Ryoyu Kobayashi earned his first victory at the Ski Jumping World Cup since January with a dominant performance in Lahti. This year’s Crystal Globe may be out of reach for the defending champion, but Kobayashi impressed in Finland to win his third individual gold of the season, and his 30th career World Cup victory.

Ad Kobayashi finished 4.1 points ahead of Stefan Kraft, with Karl Geiger completing the podium ahead of the final weekend of action in Planica next week. VikersundGranerud wins second Crystal Globe in Vikersund19/03/2023 AT 21:03 Halvor Egner Granerud has already wrapped up this year's Crystal Globe, but the race to complete the podium remains.

Just the one round of jumping took place due to heavy winds, with the first round taking almost two hours to complete, meaning Kobayashi was crowned the winner thanks to his first effort of 136.5m The victory marked a positive end to the season for Kobayashi, who has not shown the form that has yielded him two Crystal Globes. He said: «That was a difficult competition today, but it was also fun.