Polacy w komplecie awansowali do sobotniego konkursu Letniego Grand Prix w Hinterzarten. Z wygranej cieszył się Karl Geiger, który wyprzedził Kamila Stocha oraz Jewgienija Klimowa.
Najdłuższy skok kwalifikacji oddał reprezentant gospodarzy Karl Geiger, który wylądował na 104 metrze i wyprzedził o 4,6 punktu dotychczasowego lidera cyklu, Kamila Stocha (101 m). Trzecie miejsce zajął Rosjanin Jewgienij Klimow (101 m), a tuż za nim uplasował się Dawid Kubacki (99 m), Niemiec Stephan Leyhe (100 m) i Austriak Stefan Kraft (99,5 m).
W czołowej “10” po skoku na odległość 99 m sklasyfikowany został na siódmym miejscu Stefan Hula, tuż przed Andreasem Wankiem (98 m). Dziewiąty był Maciej Kot (98 m), a dziesiątkę zamknął David Siegel (96,5 m). Jedenaste miejsce w kwalifikacjach zajął Piotr Żyła (97 m), a czternaste – Jakub Wolny (96,5 m).
Kwalifikacje rozegrano w całości z 14. platformy startowej.
Sobotni konkurs w Hinterzarten rozpocznie się o godzinie 17:15. Retransmisja z konkursu na kanale Eurosport 1 o 21:00.
Wyniki kwalifikacji LGP Hinterzarten 2018:
| 1 | Q | 52 | GEIGER Karl |  |
104.0 | 14 | 85.1 | 55.5 | -1.3 | 132.2 |
| 2 | Q | 57 | STOCH Kamil |  |
101.0 | 14 | 84.8 | 54.0 | 1.6 | 127.6 |
| 3 | Q | 14 | KLIMOV Evgeniy |  |
101.0 | 14 | 85.4 | 53.0 | 1.9 | 126.9 |
| 4 | Q | 55 | KUBACKI Dawid | |
99.0 | 14 | 85.0 | 54.5 | 3.3 | 125.8 |
| 5 | Q | 37 | LEYHE Stephan | |
100.0 | 14 | 85.3 | 54.0 | 1.6 | 125.6 |
| 6 | Q | 50 | KRAFT Stefan |  |
99.5 | 14 | 84.7 | 54.5 | 0.9 | 124.4 |
| 7 | Q | 42 | HULA Stefan | |
99.0 | 14 | 84.9 | 54.5 | 1.3 | 123.8 |
| 8 | Q | 9 | WANK Andreas | |
98.0 | 14 | 85.5 | 54.0 | 0.5 | 120.5 |
| 9 | Q | 49 | KOT Maciej | |
98.0 | 14 | 84.8 | 54.0 | -0.1 | 120.0 |
| 10 | Q | 23 | SIEGEL David | |
96.5 | 14 | 84.6 | 54.0 | 2.7 | 119.7 |
| 11 | Q | 56 | ZYLA Piotr | |
97.0 | 14 | 85.1 | 52.5 | 2.3 | 118.8 |
| 12 | Q | 41 | SATO Yukiya |  |
97.0 | 14 | 85.2 | 53.0 | 0.6 | 117.6 |
| 13 | Q | 51 | ZAJC Timi |  |
97.0 | 14 | 84.6 | 53.5 | -1.3 | 116.2 |
| 14 | Q | 48 | WOLNY Jakub | |
96.5 | 14 | 84.5 | 52.5 | 0.6 | 116.1 |
| 15 | Q | 54 | PEIER Killian |  |
95.5 | 14 | 84.9 | 53.5 | 0.7 | 115.2 |
| 16 | Q | 26 | ZOGRAFSKI Vladimir |  |
96.5 | 14 | 84.4 | 52.5 | -0.6 | 114.9 |
| 17 | Q | 40 | INSAM Alex |  |
96.0 | 14 | 84.5 | 52.5 | 0.3 | 114.8 |
| 18 | Q | 45 | KOFLER Andreas | |
94.5 | 14 | 85.1 | 52.5 | 2.6 | 114.1 |
| 19 | Q | 21 | HUBER Daniel | |
95.5 | 14 | 84.9 | 50.5 | 2.4 | 113.9 |
| 20 | Q | 46 | KOUDELKA Roman |  |
94.5 | 14 | 84.7 | 53.0 | 1.4 | 113.4 |
| 21 | Q | 17 | VASSILIEV Dimitry | |
95.0 | 14 | 85.1 | 53.0 | 0.1 | 113.1 |
| 22 | Q | 43 | FREITAG Richard | |
95.0 | 14 | 84.8 | 52.0 | 0.6 | 112.6 |
| 23 | Q | 2 | AMMANN Simon | |
94.0 | 14 | 85.0 | 52.5 | 1.7 | 112.2 |
| 24 | Q | 39 | DESCHWANDEN Gregor | |
93.5 | 14 | 84.9 | 51.0 | 2.2 | 110.2 |
| 25 | Q | 53 | KOBAYASHI Junshiro | |
92.0 | 14 | 84.5 | 52.0 | 3.4 | 109.4 |
| 26 | Q | 31 | SCHMID Constantin | |
91.5 | 14 | 85.0 | 51.5 | 4.2 | 108.7 |
| 27 | Q | 36 | LANISEK Anze | |
92.5 | 14 | 84.4 | 52.5 | 1.1 | 108.6 |
| 28 | Q | 24 | SCHLIERENZAUER Gregor | |
91.5 | 14 | 84.7 | 52.5 | 2.6 | 108.1 |
| 29 | Q | 35 | PREVC Domen | |
92.0 | 14 | 85.2 | 51.0 | 2.3 | 107.3 |
| 29 | Q | 28 | PASCHKE Pius | |
91.5 | 14 | 84.4 | 51.5 | 2.8 | 107.3 |
| 31 | Q | 47 | NAKAMURA Naoki | |
91.5 | 14 | 84.6 | 51.5 | 2.5 | 107.0 |
| 32 | Q | 38 | PAVLOVCIC Bor | |
91.5 | 14 | 84.9 | 52.0 | 1.3 | 106.3 |
| 33 | Q | 8 | HARADA Yumu | |
94.0 | 14 | 84.4 | 50.5 | -3.4 | 105.1 |
| 34 | Q | 16 | HLAVA Lukas | |
90.5 | 14 | 84.4 | 51.5 | 1.8 | 104.3 |
| 35 | Q | 29 | PEDERSEN Robin |  |
89.0 | 14 | 84.8 | 50.0 | 5.5 | 103.5 |
| 36 | Q | 34 | COLLOREDO Sebastian | |
90.0 | 14 | 84.6 | 51.0 | 1.4 | 102.4 |
| 37 | Q | 12 | KORNILOV Denis | |
89.0 | 14 | 84.6 | 50.0 | 4.3 | 102.3 |
| 38 | Q | 6 | CECON Federico | |
92.5 | 14 | 84.5 | 50.5 | -3.5 | 102.0 |
| 39 | Q | 32 | BRESADOLA Davide | |
90.0 | 14 | 84.9 | 51.0 | 0.4 | 101.4 |
| 40 | Q | 13 | KOZISEK Cestmir | |
88.5 | 14 | 85.1 | 51.5 | 1.4 | 99.9 |
| 41 | Q | 19 | AIGNER Clemens | |
88.0 | 14 | 85.0 | 49.5 | 4.3 | 99.8 |
| 42 | Q | 11 | PRISLIC Ernest | |
87.5 | 14 | 85.1 | 50.5 | 4.2 | 99.7 |
| 43 | Q | 30 | HUBER Stefan | |
88.0 | 14 | 84.6 | 50.0 | 3.4 | 99.4 |
| 44 | Q | 25 | LEAROYD Jonathan |  |
89.0 | 14 | 85.0 | 51.0 | 0.1 | 99.0 |
| 45 | Q | 15 | BJOERENG Joacim Oedegaard | |
87.0 | 14 | 84.0 | 49.5 | 5.3 | 98.8 |
| 46 | Q | 18 | NAGLIC Tomaz | |
85.0 | 14 | 84.4 | 50.0 | 8.5 | 98.5 |
| 47 | Q | 5 | ROCH DUPLAND Thomas | |
89.5 | 14 | 84.9 | 51.0 | -2.7 | 97.3 |
| 48 | Q | 33 | DEZMAN Nejc | |
87.0 | 14 | 84.9 | 49.5 | 2.1 | 95.6 |
| 49 | Q | 20 | SCHULER Andreas | |
87.5 | 14 | 84.6 | 50.0 | 0.3 | 95.3 |
| 50 | Q | 3 | NAZAROV Mikhail | |
87.0 | 14 | 84.6 | 49.0 | 1.6 | 94.6 |
| 51 | 44 | LINDVIK Marius | |
86.0 | 14 | 83.9 | 49.5 | 2.6 | 94.1 | |
| 52 | 22 | TKACHENKO Sergey |  |
83.0 | 14 | 84.7 | 48.5 | 3.9 | 88.4 | |
| 53 | 7 | MUMINOV Sabirzhan | |
85.5 | 14 | 84.6 | 49.0 | -3.4 | 86.6 | |
| 54 | 4 | KYTOESAHO Niko |  |
85.5 | 14 | 84.4 | 49.5 | -4.0 | 86.5 | |
| 55 | 27 | IWASA Yuken | |
80.5 | 14 | 83.9 | 49.5 | 0.2 | 80.7 | |
| 56 | 10 | AIGRO Artti |  |
77.0 | 14 | 84.3 | 46.0 | 5.8 | 75.8 | |
| 57 | 1 | RINGEN Sondre | |
74.0 | 14 | 83.7 | 43.5 | 9.1 | 70.6 |
