Za nami kwalifikacje do sobotniego konkursu indywidualnego w Niżnym Tagile. Po bardzo dobrych lokatach w treningach poprzedzających kwalifikacje zwycięzca serii kwalifikacyjnej nikogo nie powinna dziwić. Markus Eisenbichler skokiem na 133,5 m zwyciężył. Awans do zawodów wywalczyli wszyscy Polacy. Najlepszym z Biało-Czerwonych okazał się Kamil Stoch, który uplasował się na 5. pozycji.
Kwalifikacje w Niżnym Tagile przysporzyły wiele emocji w klasyfikacji końcowej. Skoczków na miejscach 2-4 rozdzielało od siebie zaledwie 0,1 pkt. Eisenbichler wygrał z drugim Johannem Andre Forfangiem (132 m) o 2,1 pkt. Trzeci był Pius Paschke (132,5 m), a czwarty Richard Freitag (131,5 m).
Pomimo problemów z prędkością, bardzo dobrą próbę oddał Kamil Stoch (131 m / 5. miejsce). Dwie lokaty niżej od podwójnego Mistrza Olimpijskiego uplasował się Dawid Kubacki (130 m). Do konkursu zakwalifikowali się także: 18. Maciej Kot (129,5 m), 22. Piotr Żyła (127 m), 26. Stefan Hula (125,5 m) oraz 31. Jakub Wolny (127,5 m).
Kwalifikacje przeprowadzono z 8. oraz 7. platformy startowej.
Wyniki kwalifikacji Niżny Tagił 1.12.2017r.:
| lp. | nr | imię i nazwisko | kraj | odl. | belka | km/h | styl | komp. | nota | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Q | 63 | EISENBICHLER Markus |  |
133.5 | 7 | 88.5 | 54.5 | -0.2 | 143.5 |
| 2 | Q | 68 | FORFANG Johann Andre |  |
132.0 | 7 | 88.5 | 54.5 | 0.4 | 141.4 |
| 3 | Q | 56 | PASCHKE Pius | |
132.5 | 7 | 88.3 | 55.5 | -1.6 | 141.3 |
| 4 | Q | 66 | FREITAG Richard | |
131.5 | 7 | 88.3 | 55.5 | 0.1 | 141.2 |
| 5 | Q | 67 | STOCH Kamil |  |
131.0 | 7 | 87.7 | 56.5 | -0.5 | 140.7 |
| 6 | Q | 64 | KRAFT Stefan |  |
131.0 | 7 | 88.5 | 55.5 | 0.4 | 140.6 |
| 7 | Q | 61 | KUBACKI Dawid | |
130.0 | 7 | 88.5 | 55.5 | 1.3 | 139.7 |
| 8 | Q | 40 | FANNEMEL Anders | |
135.0 | 8 | 88.6 | 55.5 | -3.4 | 139.1 |
| 9 | Q | 70 | DAMJAN Jernej |  |
130.0 | 7 | 87.9 | 54.0 | 1.9 | 138.8 |
| 10 | Q | 65 | WELLINGER Andreas | |
129.0 | 7 | 88.7 | 56.0 | 1.4 | 138.5 |
| 11 | Q | 53 | GEIGER Karl | |
131.5 | 7 | 88.7 | 54.0 | -1.8 | 137.8 |
| 12 | Q | 59 | LEYHE Stephan | |
131.0 | 7 | 89.0 | 55.0 | -2.1 | 137.6 |
| 13 | Q | 55 | FETTNER Manuel | |
132.0 | 7 | 88.3 | 53.5 | -2.5 | 137.5 |
| 14 | Q | 46 | BARTOL Tilen | |
132.0 | 8 | 88.8 | 55.5 | -0.1 | 137.0 |
| 15 | Q | 69 | TANDE Daniel Andre | |
127.5 | 7 | 88.6 | 55.5 | 1.0 | 134.9 |
| 16 | Q | 34 | KLIMOV Evgeniy |  |
132.0 | 8 | 88.8 | 55.5 | -3.1 | 134.0 |
| 17 | Q | 42 | HAYBOECK Michael | |
132.0 | 8 | 89.5 | 53.5 | -2.1 | 133.0 |
| 18 | Q | 54 | KOT Maciej | |
129.5 | 7 | 88.6 | 54.0 | -3.1 | 132.9 |
| 19 | Q | 52 | PREVC Peter | |
127.5 | 7 | 88.4 | 54.0 | -0.2 | 132.2 |
| 20 | Q | 51 | STJERNEN Andreas | |
127.0 | 7 | 88.9 | 54.0 | -1.4 | 130.1 |
| 21 | Q | 49 | SEMENIC Anze | |
127.0 | 7 | 88.9 | 54.0 | -1.8 | 129.7 |
| 22 | Q | 62 | ZYLA Piotr | |
127.0 | 7 | 87.8 | 52.5 | -1.3 | 128.7 |
| 22 | Q | 41 | POPPINGER Manuel | |
127.5 | 8 | 88.3 | 54.0 | 1.2 | 128.7 |
| 24 | Q | 48 | AIGNER Clemens | |
125.5 | 7 | 88.4 | 54.0 | -0.5 | 128.3 |
| 25 | Q | 47 | AMMANN Simon |  |
128.0 | 7 | 87.8 | 50.0 | -2.3 | 127.0 |
| 26 | Q | 58 | HULA Stefan | |
125.5 | 7 | 88.4 | 52.5 | -0.4 | 126.9 |
| 27 | Q | 43 | KORNILOV Denis | |
129.0 | 8 | 88.5 | 53.5 | -4.8 | 124.9 |
| 28 | Q | 33 | ZAJC Timi | |
126.5 | 8 | 88.6 | 54.0 | -1.3 | 124.4 |
| 29 | Q | 11 | SATO Yukiya |  |
126.0 | 8 | 88.1 | 52.5 | 0.1 | 123.4 |
| 30 | Q | 60 | JOHANSSON Robert | |
124.0 | 7 | 88.7 | 52.5 | -1.6 | 123.0 |
| 31 | Q | 39 | WOLNY Jakub | |
127.5 | 8 | 88.7 | 52.0 | -2.7 | 122.8 |
| 32 | Q | 21 | VANCURA Tomas |  |
126.5 | 8 | 88.6 | 54.0 | -4.7 | 121.0 |
| 33 | Q | 24 | DESCOMBES SEVOIE Vincent |  |
126.0 | 8 | 88.6 | 52.5 | -2.9 | 120.4 |
| 34 | Q | 57 | HUBER Daniel | |
122.0 | 7 | 87.8 | 51.5 | -0.3 | 119.7 |
| 35 | Q | 9 | SAKUYAMA Kento | |
123.5 | 8 | 88.1 | 52.0 | -0.7 | 117.6 |
| 36 | Q | 44 | AALTO Antti |  |
126.5 | 8 | 88.9 | 51.0 | -6.6 | 116.1 |
| 37 | Q | 50 | GRANERUD Halvor Egner | |
122.0 | 7 | 88.2 | 51.5 | -4.0 | 116.0 |
| 38 | Q | 38 | DESCHWANDEN Gregor | |
122.0 | 8 | 88.4 | 52.0 | -0.1 | 115.6 |
| 39 | Q | 13 | INSAM Alex |  |
122.0 | 8 | 88.4 | 52.5 | -0.6 | 115.5 |
| 40 | Q | 35 | NAZAROV Mikhail | |
122.5 | 8 | 88.6 | 51.5 | -1.5 | 114.5 |
| 41 | Q | 32 | STURSA Vojtech | |
123.0 | 8 | 88.1 | 50.0 | -1.6 | 113.8 |
| 42 | Q | 28 | SCHIFFNER Markus | |
121.5 | 8 | 88.5 | 51.5 | -0.5 | 113.7 |
| 43 | Q | 17 | ZOGRAFSKI Vladimir |  |
124.0 | 8 | 87.8 | 51.0 | -4.6 | 113.6 |
| 44 | Q | 31 | PEIER Killian | |
121.0 | 8 | 88.4 | 52.0 | -0.9 | 112.9 |
| 45 | Q | 36 | RHOADS William |  |
121.0 | 8 | 88.3 | 50.5 | -0.2 | 112.1 |
| 46 | Q | 37 | BRESADOLA Davide | |
121.0 | 8 | 88.5 | 50.0 | 0.2 | 112.0 |
| 46 | Q | 30 | KRANJEC Robert | |
122.5 | 8 | 88.1 | 51.0 | -3.5 | 112.0 |
| 46 | Q | 16 | HARADA Yumu | |
121.0 | 8 | 88.3 | 52.5 | -2.3 | 112.0 |
| 49 | Q | 22 | LANISEK Anze | |
121.0 | 8 | 88.3 | 51.0 | -1.4 | 111.4 |
| 50 | Q | 12 | NOUSIAINEN Eetu | |
121.0 | 8 | 88.8 | 51.0 | -2.1 | 110.7 |
| 51 | 7 | ALAMOMMO Andreas | |
120.0 | 8 | 88.5 | 51.5 | -1.2 | 110.3 | |
| 52 | 29 | HLAVA Lukas | |
121.5 | 8 | 88.5 | 51.0 | -4.7 | 109.0 | |
| 53 | 19 | CHOI Seou |  |
119.5 | 8 | 87.5 | 49.0 | 0.4 | 108.5 | |
| 54 | 8 | BICKNER Kevin | |
118.5 | 8 | 88.2 | 50.5 | -1.4 | 106.4 | |
| 54 | 2 | HAZETDINOV Ilmir | |
117.0 | 8 | 88.9 | 51.0 | 0.8 | 106.4 | |
| 56 | 26 | SCHULER Andreas | |
118.0 | 8 | 88.4 | 50.0 | -1.0 | 105.4 | |
| 57 | 23 | NAKAMURA Naoki | |
117.5 | 8 | 88.1 | 50.0 | -0.4 | 105.1 | |
| 58 | 18 | GLASDER Michael | |
116.0 | 8 | 88.3 | 51.0 | 0.1 | 103.9 | |
| 59 | 45 | SIEGEL David | |
117.5 | 8 | 88.6 | 51.0 | -3.2 | 103.3 | |
| 60 | 25 | POLASEK Viktor | |
116.5 | 8 | 87.8 | 48.0 | 1.2 | 102.9 | |
| 61 | 4 | VASSILIEV Dimitry | |
115.5 | 8 | 88.7 | 51.0 | -0.5 | 102.4 | |
| 62 | 10 | TROFIMOV Roman Sergeevich | |
115.0 | 8 | 88.1 | 50.5 | 0.2 | 101.7 | |
| 63 | 3 | BAZHENOV Aleksandr | |
114.5 | 8 | 88.3 | 49.5 | 1.4 | 101.0 | |
| 64 | 27 | COLLOREDO Sebastian | |
115.0 | 8 | 88.6 | 49.0 | -1.2 | 98.8 | |
| 65 | 20 | BOYD-CLOWES Mackenzie |  |
113.5 | 8 | 88.4 | 45.0 | 0.7 | 94.0 | |
| 66 | 15 | ITO Masamitsu | |
112.0 | 8 | 88.3 | 49.5 | -1.4 | 93.7 | |
| 67 | 5 | ROMASHOV Alexey | |
110.0 | 8 | 88.1 | 49.0 | -0.9 | 90.1 | |
| 68 | 6 | ZHAPAROV Marat |  |
106.0 | 8 | 87.9 | 48.0 | 0.2 | 83.0 | |
| 69 | 14 | MUMINOV Sabirzhan | |
107.5 | 8 | 88.9 | 46.0 | -3.3 | 80.2 | |
| 70 | 1 | SHISHKIN Vadim | |
98.5 | 8 | 87.5 | 46.0 | 1.6 | 68.9 |
