Domen Prevc claimed his seventh win of the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup season in style and extended his lead at the top of the 2025-26 Four Hills Tournament standings with another 15-point win on New Year’s Day 2026 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
The Slovenian had taken the first leg of the Four Hills on 29 December by 17-and-a-half points in Oberstdorf, and on Thursday (1 January) secured another dominant win in the face of difficult wind conditions for his second-round jump to complete his double triumph in Germany.
Prevc had led after the first round by 3.2 points from Austria’s Jan Hörl, but it was the 26-year-old’s second jump which stole the show.
Most of the field had jumped from the higher gate 17 during the contest, but for the last four men in the second round that was lowered, first to gate 16, then to gate 15 for Hörl and Prevc. In practice, with a lower start gate meaning less runway to gain speed, ski jumpers are awarded gate compensation points to make up for the more difficult conditions; both Hörl and Prevc received 3.8 points for their lower gate.
In addition to the lower start, the wind was swirling and variable for both men. Hörl did well to just edge in front of his fellow Austrian Stefan Embacher by 0.6 total points on a total of 287.7 points.
But Prevc stepped up and shone just as he has all season — once more laying down a marker of why he will be the man to beat at Milano Cortina 2026.
Despite his lower start, he had the joint-second-furthest jump of the second round at 141.0m (only Embacher’s 141.5m was further). Coupled with compensation points for the wind and his start gate, he scored 153.8 points for the round and a total of 303.1 points, a whopping 15.4 clear of Hörl.
It means Prevc now leads the overall Four Hills standings by a massive 35 points from Hörl, by 619.8 points to 584.8 points. Embacher is now third overall on 578.3 points with two legs remaining, both in Austria, at Innsbruck and Bischofshofen.