Kamil Stoch wygrał poranny trening przed czwartkowymi kwalifikacjami w Planicy. Polak uzyskał 238,5 metra. Druga seria treningowa została odwołana.
Pierwsza seria treningowa była przerywana z powodu zbyt mocnego wiatru. Dlatego też odwołano drugą serię treningową.
Najlepszy wynik uzyskał Kamil Stoch, który z 5. platformy startowej poleciał na 238,5 metr. Drugie miejsce zajął Noriaki Kasai, który z 5. belki, poleciał na 240. metr. Japończyk przegrał z liderem Pucharu Świata różnicą 2,8 pkt. Czołową trójkę uzupełnił Domen Prevc. Słoweniec skoczył 232,5 metra.
Piotr Żyła (210,5 m), Stefan Hula i Dawid Kubacki (obaj 218 m) znaleźli się na początku trzeciej dziesiątki. Maciej Kot (215,5 m) był 34., a Jakub Wolny (193,5 m) – 50.
Wyniki treningu Planica 2018:
| 1 | 60 | STOCH Kamil |  |
238.5 | 5 | 102.0 | -7.8 | 205.1 |
| 2 | 64 | KASAI Noriaki |  |
240.0 | 5 | 101.4 | -12.4 | 202.3 |
| 3 | 66 | PREVC Domen |  |
232.5 | 5 | 102.3 | -7.3 | 198.4 |
| 4 | 68 | JOHANSSON Robert |  |
229.5 | 5 | 103.5 | -5.6 | 196.5 |
| 5 | 62 | EISENBICHLER Markus |  |
232.0 | 5 | 102.5 | -10.1 | 195.0 |
| 6 | 61 | PREVC Peter | |
227.0 | 5 | 102.5 | -9.6 | 189.5 |
| 7 | 63 | AMMANN Simon |  |
222.5 | 5 | 102.4 | -10.1 | 183.6 |
| 8 | 56 | FREITAG Richard | |
236.5 | 7 | 104.4 | -13.0 | 179.1 |
| 9 | 57 | BARTOL Tilen | |
234.5 | 7 | 102.9 | -12.0 | 177.7 |
| 10 | 67 | TANDE Daniel Andre | |
213.5 | 5 | 104.4 | -6.5 | 176.4 |
| 11 | 53 | FORFANG Johann Andre | |
241.0 | 8 | 103.9 | -12.4 | 175.8 |
| 12 | 55 | SEMENIC Anze | |
236.0 | 8 | 104.8 | -7.6 | 174.6 |
| 13 | 65 | KRAFT Stefan |  |
208.0 | 5 | 102.7 | -7.6 | 168.7 |
| 14 | 3 | TEPES Jurij | |
229.5 | 8 | 103.1 | -10.2 | 164.2 |
| 15 | 52 | GRANERUD Halvor Egner | |
233.0 | 8 | 104.8 | -15.6 | 163.0 |
| 16 | 69 | STJERNEN Andreas | |
195.0 | 5 | 104.1 | -2.7 | 158.0 |
| 17 | 6 | NAGLIC Tomaz | |
220.0 | 8 | 103.7 | -5.6 | 157.4 |
| 18 | 40 | KOBAYASHI Junshiro | |
225.5 | 8 | 103.4 | -14.5 | 155.1 |
| 19 | 45 | KOBAYASHI Ryoyu | |
219.0 | 8 | 104.2 | -7.1 | 154.7 |
| 20 | 38 | INSAM Alex |  |
219.5 | 8 | 104.8 | -9.2 | 153.2 |
| 21 | 58 | ZYLA Piotr | |
210.5 | 7 | 102.9 | -10.2 | 150.7 |
| 22 | 48 | WELLINGER Andreas | |
221.5 | 8 | 105.2 | -14.3 | 150.5 |
| 23 | 54 | HULA Stefan | |
218.0 | 8 | 103.6 | -10.2 | 150.4 |
| 24 | 47 | KUBACKI Dawid | |
218.0 | 8 | 104.6 | -12.4 | 148.2 |
| 25 | 4 | KRANJEC Robert | |
211.0 | 8 | 102.8 | -4.8 | 147.4 |
| 26 | 59 | AIGNER Clemens | |
205.0 | 7 | 103.3 | -7.8 | 146.5 |
| 27 | 2 | JELAR Ziga | |
230.0 | 10 | 104.9 | -10.2 | 145.8 |
| 28 | 39 | BICKNER Kevin |  |
215.0 | 8 | 103.8 | -11.4 | 145.6 |
| 29 | 44 | SATO Yukiya | |
211.5 | 8 | 130.5 | -7.5 | 145.3 |
| 30 | 24 | SCHLIERENZAUER Gregor | |
219.0 | 8 | 104.0 | -16.6 | 145.2 |
| 31 | 16 | WANK Andreas | |
213.0 | 8 | 104.9 | -10.5 | 144.1 |
| 32 | 51 | FANNEMEL Anders | |
211.0 | 8 | 104.1 | -10.2 | 142.0 |
| 33 | 9 | ASCHENWALD Philipp | |
206.5 | 8 | 104.9 | -6.5 | 140.3 |
| 34 | 41 | KOT Maciej | |
215.5 | 8 | 104.4 | -17.9 | 139.7 |
| 35 | 5 | PAVLOVCIC Bor | |
204.0 | 8 | 103.9 | -4.9 | 138.9 |
| 36 | 34 | DEZMAN Nejc | |
210.0 | 8 | 104.0 | -13.2 | 137.8 |
| 37 | 10 | LINDVIK Marius | |
205.0 | 8 | 105.7 | -8.5 | 136.5 |
| 38 | 36 | PASCHKE Pius | |
204.5 | 8 | 104.1 | -8.5 | 135.9 |
| 39 | 50 | LEYHE Stephan | |
203.5 | 8 | 104.5 | -7.6 | 135.6 |
| 40 | 15 | BOYD-CLOWES Mackenzie |  |
208.0 | 8 | 105.2 | -16.6 | 132.0 |
| 41 | 37 | ZOGRAFSKI Vladimir |  |
196.0 | 8 | 102.2 | -9.2 | 125.0 |
| 42 | 46 | KORNILOV Denis |  |
195.0 | 8 | 105.2 | -8.2 | 124.8 |
| 43 | 19 | NAZAROV Mikhail | |
198.0 | 8 | 103.9 | -12.1 | 124.5 |
| 44 | 11 | AALTO Antti |  |
197.0 | 8 | 104.4 | -12.2 | 123.2 |
| 45 | 42 | DAMJAN Jernej | |
193.5 | 8 | 102.6 | -9.6 | 121.6 |
| 46 | 20 | DESCHWANDEN Gregor | |
196.0 | 8 | 103.4 | -13.2 | 121.0 |
| 47 | 49 | KOZISEK Cestmir |  |
196.0 | 8 | 103.6 | -13.8 | 120.4 |
| 48 | 43 | TAKEUCHI Taku | |
191.0 | 8 | 61.6 | -8.8 | 119.4 |
| 49 | 22 | GLASDER Michael | |
196.0 | 8 | 103.6 | -15.4 | 118.8 |
| 50 | 35 | WOLNY Jakub | |
193.5 | 8 | 103.0 | -13.4 | 117.8 |
| 51 | 1 | PREVC Cene | |
207.5 | 10 | 104.4 | -11.8 | 117.2 |
| 52 | 21 | HUBER Daniel | |
190.5 | 8 | 103.5 | -13.1 | 114.5 |
| 53 | 18 | ALAMOMMO Andreas | |
189.5 | 8 | 103.9 | -12.7 | 113.7 |
| 54 | 12 | KLIMOV Evgeniy | |
190.5 | 8 | 103.9 | -14.4 | 113.2 |
| 55 | 25 | LANISEK Anze | |
187.5 | 8 | 104.8 | -11.4 | 112.6 |
| 56 | 29 | AIGRO Artti |  |
183.5 | 8 | 102.0 | -8.5 | 110.7 |
| 57 | 13 | EGLOFF Luca | |
191.5 | 8 | 104.2 | -18.3 | 110.5 |
| 58 | 30 | ROMASHOV Alexey | |
184.5 | 8 | 102.4 | -12.1 | 108.3 |
| 59 | 27 | COLLOREDO Sebastian | |
187.5 | 8 | 103.4 | -16.1 | 107.9 |
| 60 | 23 | DELLASEGA Roberto | |
186.0 | 8 | 104.3 | -15.3 | 106.9 |
| 61 | 26 | LARSON Casey | |
187.5 | 8 | 105.2 | -19.9 | 104.1 |
| 62 | 32 | CECON Federico | |
171.0 | 8 | 130.1 | -12.7 | 91.5 |
| 63 | 17 | SCHULER Andreas | |
168.0 | 8 | 103.6 | -13.0 | 87.6 |
| 64 | 14 | NOMME Martti | |
149.0 | 8 | 102.8 | -16.1 | 61.7 |
| 65 | 28 | ZHAPAROV Marat |  |
129.0 | 8 | 104.0 | -17.3 | 36.5 |
| 66 | 31 | RHOADS William | |
118.0 | 8 | 103.1 | -12.5 | 28.1 |
| 67 | 33 | FETTNER Manuel | |
101.5 | 8 | 103.7 | -1.9 | 18.9 |
| 68 | 8 | SOKOLENKO Konstantin | |
95.0 | 8 | 103.2 | -10.5 | 2.5 |
| 7 | GEIGER Karl |
