Serię próbną przed niedzielnym konkursem indywidualnym w niemieckim Willingen wygrywa Norweg, Johann Andre Forfang. W czołowej „10” uplasowało się trzech Polaków!
Zwycięzca, Johann Andre Forfang po skoku na 142 m pokonał Dawida Kubackiego (141,5 m) o 0,4 pkt! Trzecie miejsce zajął Peter Prevc (141,5 m). Tuż za najlepszą trójką serii próbne uplasował się Kamil Stoch (140 m) ze stratą 2 pkt do Prevca, triumfator wczorajszych zawodów Daniel Andre Tande (139 m) oraz Piotr Żyła (138 m).
Bardzo dobry skok na 136,5 m oddał Jakub Wolny (16. lokata). W drugiej dziesiątce znaleźli się: 27. Stefan Hula (125 m) oraz 29. Maciej Kot (125 m).
Serię próbną roezgrano z 10., 9. oraz 8. platformy startowej.
Pierwsza seria zawodów rozpocząć się ma o 10:20. Transmisja w TVP1 i Eurosport 1.
Wyniki serii próbnej Willingen, 04.02.2018r.:
| 1 | 52 | FORFANG Johann Andre |  |
142.0 | 8 | 88.2 | -12.2 | 77.9 |
| 2 | 49 | KUBACKI Dawid |  |
141.5 | 8 | 88.3 | -11.7 | 77.5 |
| 3 | 43 | PREVC Peter |  |
141.5 | 9 | 88.5 | -7.4 | 77.4 |
| 4 | 55 | STOCH Kamil | |
141.0 | 8 | 87.7 | -12.9 | 75.4 |
| 5 | 53 | TANDE Daniel Andre | |
139.0 | 8 | 88.3 | -12.9 | 71.8 |
| 6 | 42 | ZYLA Piotr | |
138.0 | 9 | 88.1 | -9.2 | 69.3 |
| 7 | 35 | ZAJC Timi | |
138.5 | 9 | 87.8 | -10.3 | 69.1 |
| 8 | 38 | GRANERUD Halvor Egner | |
140.5 | 9 | 88.5 | -14.4 | 68.6 |
| 9 | 30 | BICKNER Kevin |  |
142.0 | 10 | 88.7 | -13.8 | 67.8 |
| 10 | 50 | JOHANSSON Robert | |
135.5 | 8 | 88.5 | -11.3 | 67.1 |
| 11 | 40 | LEYHE Stephan |  |
136.5 | 9 | 88.7 | -9.5 | 66.3 |
| 12 | 56 | FREITAG Richard | |
133.5 | 8 | 87.8 | -10.1 | 64.7 |
| 13 | 37 | BARTOL Tilen | |
135.5 | 9 | 88.1 | -11.1 | 62.9 |
| 14 | 19 | SATO Yukiya |  |
141.5 | 10 | 88.4 | -17.9 | 62.8 |
| 15 | 29 | DEZMAN Nejc | |
139.5 | 10 | 88.5 | -15.9 | 61.2 |
| 16 | 32 | WOLNY Jakub | |
136.5 | 9 | 88.1 | -15.4 | 60.4 |
| 17 | 24 | SIEGEL David | |
134.0 | 10 | 88.2 | -7.3 | 59.9 |
| 18 | 41 | SEMENIC Anze | |
136.5 | 9 | 88.1 | -16.0 | 59.8 |
| 19 | 48 | EISENBICHLER Markus | |
130.0 | 8 | 87.9 | -8.8 | 59.7 |
| 20 | 45 | DAMJAN Jernej | |
131.5 | 8 | 87.5 | -11.6 | 59.6 |
| 21 | 44 | GEIGER Karl | |
132.0 | 8 | 88.4 | -13.1 | 59.0 |
| 22 | 51 | FANNEMEL Anders | |
130.0 | 8 | 88.0 | -10.9 | 57.6 |
| 23 | 7 | NAKAMURA Naoki | |
133.0 | 10 | 88.4 | -8.1 | 57.3 |
| 24 | 21 | BOYD-CLOWES Mackenzie |  |
128.5 | 10 | 88.8 | -4.3 | 53.0 |
| 25 | 34 | POPPINGER Manuel |  |
131.5 | 9 | 88.1 | -16.0 | 50.8 |
| 26 | 54 | WELLINGER Andreas | |
125.5 | 8 | 88.0 | -10.1 | 50.3 |
| 27 | 46 | HULA Stefan | |
125.0 | 8 | 87.9 | -10.6 | 48.9 |
| 28 | 3 | INSAM Alex |  |
131.5 | 10 | 88.4 | -13.9 | 48.8 |
| 29 | 39 | KOT Maciej | |
125.0 | 9 | 88.4 | -7.6 | 47.5 |
| 30 | 5 | HILDE Tom | |
128.0 | 10 | 88.4 | -11.3 | 45.1 |
| 31 | 2 | SAKUYAMA Kento | |
127.0 | 10 | 88.1 | -9.9 | 44.7 |
| 32 | 33 | DESCHWANDEN Gregor |  |
125.5 | 9 | 88.0 | -11.8 | 44.2 |
| 32 | 28 | AALTO Antti |  |
127.0 | 10 | 88.7 | -10.4 | 44.2 |
| 34 | 23 | NOUSIAINEN Eetu | |
126.0 | 10 | 88.9 | -8.8 | 44.0 |
| 35 | 15 | GLASDER Michael | |
124.5 | 10 | 88.3 | -10.9 | 39.2 |
| 36 | 12 | ALTENBURGER Florian | |
120.0 | 10 | 88.2 | -4.3 | 37.7 |
| 36 | 4 | SCHULER Andreas | |
124.5 | 10 | 88.5 | -12.4 | 37.7 |
| 38 | 18 | VASSILIEV Dimitry |  |
123.0 | 10 | 88.7 | -13.0 | 34.4 |
| 39 | 16 | HARADA Yumu | |
120.5 | 10 | 87.6 | -9.1 | 33.8 |
| 40 | 8 | NAITO Tomofumi | |
124.5 | 10 | 87.6 | -16.4 | 33.7 |
| 41 | 36 | HUBER Daniel | |
117.5 | 9 | 87.6 | -9.6 | 32.0 |
| 42 | 31 | JELAR Ziga | |
118.5 | 9 | 87.8 | -13.8 | 29.6 |
| 43 | 22 | WOHLGENANNT Ulrich | |
115.5 | 10 | 88.4 | -6.7 | 27.2 |
| 44 | 14 | MAKSIMOCHKIN Mikhail | |
116.5 | 10 | 87.9 | -10.8 | 24.9 |
| 45 | 13 | TROFIMOV Roman Sergeevich | |
113.0 | 10 | 88.0 | -6.2 | 23.2 |
| 46 | 25 | RHOADS William | |
116.0 | 10 | 88.2 | -11.9 | 22.9 |
| 47 | 1 | EGLOFF Luca | |
114.5 | 10 | 89.0 | -10.6 | 21.5 |
| 48 | 17 | COLLOREDO Sebastian | |
110.5 | 10 | 88.4 | -4.0 | 20.9 |
| 49 | 6 | HAZETDINOV Ilmir | |
114.0 | 10 | 88.1 | -14.4 | 16.8 |
| 50 | 27 | PEIER Killian | |
112.0 | 10 | 88.4 | -12.6 | 15.0 |
| 51 | 47 | STJERNEN Andreas | |
102.5 | 8 | 88.7 | -7.1 | 11.9 |
| 52 | 10 | CECON Federico | |
104.5 | 10 | 88.3 | -6.3 | 7.8 |
| 53 | 11 | BRESADOLA Davide | |
101.5 | 10 | 88.3 | -2.7 | 6.0 |
| 54 | 26 | KOUDELKA Roman |  |
92.5 | 10 | 88.1 | -7.3 | |
| 54 | 9 | SOKOLENKO Konstantin |  |
82.5 | 10 | 88.0 | -10.5 | |
| 20 | STURSA Vojtech | |
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