Olympedia – Large Hill, Team, Men

Norway was the defending Olympic champion in the men’s team large hill, but they had not seen the podium at either of the two World Championships since the PyeongChang Games. Those had been won by Germany, with Austria taking runner-up both times and bronze going to Japan and Poland in 2019 and 2021 respectively. In the three times that the event had been held in the most recent World Cup season, Austria had won twice and Slovenia once.

In the first round, Slovenia took the lead, with Austria second and Norway a little further back in third. In the second round, however, Austrian Jan Hörl pulled off the second-farthest jump of the competition to help pull his country into the gold medal position, where they could not be reached, even after a great performance by Slovenia’s Cene Prevc, who helped his nation earn silver. This was Austria’s first Olympic ski jumping title since 2010, when they had won this event. The best jump of the event, however, went to Markus Eisenbichler, who travelled 139.5 metres to raise Germany from fourth place into the bronze medal position. Norwegian star Robert Johansson attempted to make up the difference, but could not, thus leaving his team in fourth.