Kot and Prevc share Sapporo World Cup win
BySportsbeat
Updated 11/02/2017 at 12:48 GMT
Poland's Maciej Kot claimed his first ever individual World Cup win but he had to share top spot on the podium with Peter Prevc who also finished on the same points at the latest World Cup competition in Sapporo.
Maciej Kot
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Both scored 260.2 with Prevc recording the longest jump of the day at 143m, but Kot's jumps of 134m and 138m kept him level with his rival.
The latter said: "It feels great to win. It's my first win in the World Cup, hopefully it won't be my last.
"It wasn't an easy competition for me, the weather was not that good, but I had two really good jumps. I was working very hard to achieve this and it means a lot to me."
For two-time Olympic medallist Prevc, it was also a return to the top step of the podium for the very first time this season.
"I'm really happy. It has been quite a long time since my last podium," he said.
"I was not that good in the trial round today, but I knew what I had to do to jump far in the competition.
"In the first round I also had good conditions. I hope I can perform that well again tomorrow, just be calm and enjoy jumping."
Slovenia's Prevc clearly likes Sapporo having won a competition there in each of the last four seasons. This was also his 22nd win on the World Cup circuit.
Austria's Stefan Kraft, who won in Oberstdorf twice last weekend, came third on 257.5 while Andreas Wellinger closely missed the podium on 247.5.
Kraft is third in the overall World Cup standings with 980 points, exactly 100 points behind leader Kamil Stoch who suffered a big mistake in the second round and finished in 18th.
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