Embacher and Kvandal wins ski flying as Prevcs falter
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Stephan Embacher claimed his first World Cup victory and Eirin Maria Kvandal won the women's event on the Vikersund ski flying hill on a rare day without victory for Prevc family.
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Austria's Embacher recorded 232 and 225 metres to beat Japan's Tomofumi Naito by 12.3 points. Naito had a competition leading 240m in the first round. Johann Andre Forfang from hosts Norway was third.
World Cup and skiflying world champion Domen Prevc of Slovenia meanwhile had to settle for fifth with 211m and 218.5m.
His sister Nika, who also already clinched the World Cup title, lost a first round lead with a modest second to finish third behind Kvandal and Sweden's Frida Westman.
Kvandal soared 218 and 223 metres for a second Vikersund success, a third of the season and ninth of her career. She won 5.4 points ahead of Westman whose two jumps of 225m gave her a career best second place and a second podium, more than three years after her first.
World Cup champion Prevc had led the first round with 224m but only managed 204.5m in the second as she slipped to third.
Norwegian double Olympic champion Anna Odine Strøm had the biggest jump of the competition with 235.5m, just half a metre off the women's world record 236m Prevc recorded on the same hill last year.
A second Vikersund competition for men and women is scheduled for Sunday.
Cross country skiers had sprint races in the United States where Italian veteran Federico Pellegrino won the men's race from Norway's Lars Heggen and Anton Grahn of Sweden.
Norwegian superstar Johannes Høsflot Klæbo skipped the Lake Placid race, having already secured the sprint and overall World Cup titles. Klæbo was concussed in a fall last week but returned on Friday to win the 10km and is conserving energy for Sunday's season-ending 20km.
Linn Svahn followed up on her 10km success with first place in the women's sprint in a Swedish sweep ahead of Jonna Sundling and Maja Dahlqvist - the identical finish as in last month's Olympic race.
The women also wrap up matters with a 20km race on Sunday in what will be the final career race of World Cup winner Jessica Diggins, who went out in the semis on Saturday in front of a home crowd.
Norway's Eirin Maria Kvandal celebrates on the podium after winning the women's competition at the FIS Ski Flying World Cup in Vikersund. Trond R Teigen/NTB/dpa(L-R) Sweden's second placed Frida Westman, Austria's winner Eirin Maria Kvaldal and Slovenia's third placed Nika Vodan celebrate on the podium after the women's competition at the FIS Ski Flying World Cup in Vikersund. Trond R Teigen/NTB/dpa(L-R) Japan's second placed Tomofumi Naito, Austria's winner Stephan Embacher and Norway's Johann Andre Forfang celebrate on the podium after the men's competition at the FIS Ski Flying World Cup in Vikersund. Trond R Teigen/NTB/dpa