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First event of Beskidy Cup takes place in Szczyrk, at Skalite Hill. First round of the competition has just finished.

First event of Beskidy Cup takes place in Szczyrk, at Skalite Hill. Trial round has just finished.

Official training before Beskidy Cup event in Szczyrk has just ended. Blaz Pavlic from Slovenia was the first. Just behind him were Polish athlete Klemens Murańka and Martti Nomme from Estonia.

At Friday, 18th of August, first competition of Beskidy Cup will take place in Szczyrk at HS-106 Ski Jumping Hill. After the 30-years-old break Beskidy Cup returns to the schedule of summer events. 75 athletes from 18 different countries will jump at Friday’s competition, among them 11 ski jumpers will be from Poland.

Three different ski jumping hills and three days of contests in Szczyrk, Wisła and Frenstat - this is the program of this year's Continental Cup taking place in Poland nad Czech Republic under the name of Beskidy Cup.After the 30-years-old break Beskidy Cup returns to the schedule of summer events. In the past, Beskidy Cup was organised 31 times (1958-1989) as one of the FIS Cup competition.

It was the second evening in Wisła-Malinka where Polish ski jumping stars shined the brightest. After winning in the team competition, the Poles dominated also the individual one where two first steps of the were occupied by Polish ski jumpers. Dawid Kubacki won Saturday’s event with 3,4 points in advance. Maciej Kot was the second. Karl Geiger stood at the third step of the podium and he lost 5.1 points to Dawid.

Trial round before the individual competition FIS Grand Prix Wisła 2017 is cancelled due to strong wind. First round of the event will start at 17:30.

50 ski jumpers from different countries will jump in Saturday’s individual competition at Adam Małysz’s Ski Jumping Hill in Wisła-Malinka. The best athlete in qualification was Maciej Kot who won the individual competition last year. Even though the new system of qualification is tested during FIS Grand Prix Wisła 2017, the ski jumpers will jump in the first round in the order of general classification of last winter’s Worl Cup. So that Kamil Stoch, the winner of FIS World Cup, will be the last ski jumper who will sit at the gate.

German team was at the third step of the podium after a dramatic fight with the Slovenian team in a final round of the team competition FIS Grand Prix in Wisła-Malinka. The best athlete of the team was definitely Stephen Leyhe, who was at the podium in his group just behind the Polish athlete, Dawid Kubacki. Also the second jump of Andreas Wellinger was one of the reasons why the German team won with the Slovenians. In Friday’s team competition the Poles were the best and the second step of the podium went for the athletes from Norway.

It was a beautiful night for Polish National Team, the part of which were Piotr Żyła, Kamil Stoch, Dawid Kubacki and Maciej Kot, who won the team competition during FIS Grand Prix Wisła 2017. Polish athletes confirmed their domination with an advantage of 12 points before the team of Norway. Germans were at the third step of the podium after the jump of Stephen Leyhe.