Germany repeated last year's success when opening the World Cup ski jumping season with a home win at Klingenthal on Saturday.

The Olympic champions led by Severin Freund prevailed with a total of 1021.9 points ahead of Slovenia and Austria.

Switzerland, featuring seven-time Olympic champion Simon Ammann, had to make do with a lowly seventh place.

Sunday sees Freund launch the defence of his crystal globe title in the first individual event of the 2015-2016 season.

Results

1. Germany 1021.9 pts (Andreas Wellinger, Andreas Wank, Richard Freitag, Severin Freund), 2. Slovenia 1001.5 pts (Domen Prevc, Jurij Tepes, Anze Lanisek, Peter Prevc), 3. Austria 934.2 (Michael Hayboeck, Gregor Schlierenzauer, Manuel Fettner, Stefan Kraft)
Source: AFP